The researchers gave pregnant women a recording of 

several spoken variations of the made-up word "tatata" to 

play daily during their last trimester. When tested using EEG 

sensors after birth, their infants' brains recognised the 

words 

and its variations, while the control group did not.

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Veikko Somerpuro/The University of Helsinki