Watch What You Say Around Pregnant Women: Study Reveals Babies Memorize Sounds in the Womb

Parents might already be choosy with what words they use around their impressionable children, but a new study is showing that a fetus still in the womb might be making memories of sounds as well.

According to research out of the University of Helsinki in Finland, auditory learning starts before birth.

“Our findings indicate that prenatal experiences have a remarkable influence on the brain’s auditory discrimination accuracy, which may support, for example, language acquisition during infancy,” the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences stated. “Consequently, our results also imply that it might be possible to support early auditory development and potentially compensate for difficulties of genetic nature, such as language impairment or dyslexia.”

It is well-known that babies still in the womb experience sound and can respond to it, but this study provides the first neural evidence that these sounds impact human fetal learning.

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