NEUROSCIENCE AND BABYPLUS

February 2015

Science Magazine, "Sound of mom's voice boosts brain growth in premature babies."
The mother's voice and duplications of the sounds of the womb environment are cited as positives for the development of preemies. 
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/02/sound-mom-s-voice-boosts-brain-growth-premature-babies

January 2015

PNAS-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Mother's voice and heartbeat sounds elicit auditory plasticity in the human brain before full gestation."
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/10/3152.abstract

July 2014

Science Journal, "Hearing and Imagination Shape What We See"
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6193/176.2.full

November 2013

NY Daily News, "Music Training Strengthens a Child's Brain for a Lifetime "
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/music-training-strengthen-brain-lifetime-research-finds-article-1.1515804

August 2013

"Unborn Babies are Hearing You, Loud and Clear"- NBC News
http://www.today.com/moms/unborn-babies-are-hearing-you-loud-clear-8C11005474

June 2012

Harvard University focuses on Brain Development and Architecture from Conception On.  Connections Made and Used Frequently Grow Stronger while other less used connections fall away.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/three_core_concepts/brain_architecture/

Sept 2012

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, "Exposure to Biological Maternal Sounds Improves Cardiorespiratory Regulation in Extremely Preterm Infants"
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/14767058.2011.648237

December 2011

"What babies Learn Before They're Born"
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/11/opinion/paul-ted-talk/

February 2009

Penn State /News, Rick O. Gilmore, PhD writes article titled “Probing Question: Can Babies Learn in utero?”  His answer is “Absolutely.” David B. Chamberlain Birth Psychology Prenatal Stimulation and Experimental Results Prenatal Memory & Learning
http://news.psu.edu/story/141254/2009/02/23/research/probing-question-can-babies-learn-utero

March 2009

"Brain Images Revel the Secret to higher IQ" -MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/412678/brain-images-reveal-the-secret-to-higher-iq/

2006

November 11th, Hong Kong proclaimed the worlds first PRENATAL EDUCATION DAY honoring the progressive nature of the BabyPlus Prenatal Education method!

2005

Experimental Neurology "deficient environment"in prenatal life may compromise systemsimportant for cognitive function by affecting BDNF in the hippocampus" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488604004789

2003

Publication of the first comprehensive resource on prenatal sound enrichment-Learning Before Birth: Every Child Deserves Giftedness

1990s

Numerous studies link the earliest sonic influences to youth and adult proficiency; Brent Logan designs a second-generation prenatal auditory player, trade named BabyPlus, with extensive donations of units to developing countries, resulting in benefits for tens of thousands of children from every socioeconomic background.

1989 - 90

Commercialization of fetal enrichment technology created by Brent Logan commences, with 3000 children advantaged

1987 - 88

The first babies prenatally experiencing an imprintable sonic progression under Brent Logan's projects are born; he begins a series of related articles in academic journals

1986

Brent Logan presents prelearning theory before professional congresses, then inaugurates in utero pilot studies to verify his contention; Rene Van de Carr publishes the first clinical evidence showing neonatal and infant assets from prenatal stimulation

1984

Upon learning from his patients about fetal responsiveness to abdominal touch, California obstetrician Rene Van de Carr, MD, develops a stimulation methodology of tactile manipulations paired with words describing these actions.

1982

Media reports about Americans Joseph and Jitsuko Susedik having enriched their four daughters before birth and throughout childhood during the prior decade with mixed means, all girls demonstrating giftedness; Brent Logan proposes curricularized variations of maternal in utero heartbeat sounds as an auditory curriculum. This initiates comprehensive theoretical research, and he invents the earliest prenatal learning technology.

1981

In The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Toronto psychiatrist Thomas Verny and co-writer John Kelly compile anecdotes of assorted fetal effects upon later life

1980s

Anthony DeCasper, a University of North Carolina psychologist, determines that newborns exhibit preference for speech patterns heard before birth, favoring the maternal voice. At the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Donald Shetler has pregnant students provide recorded classical music to the womb through adjacent headsets, with their children exhibiting early musical skills.

1980

Introduction of the portable audiocassette player, the Sony Walkman. Parents worldwide begin applying headphones to the maternal abdomen, producing fetal movement and claims for infant benefits.

1971

Prenatal psychology commences as a scientific discipline with the Vienna founding of its first professional organization, another group beginning in Toronto a decade after

1970s - 80s

Technology provides more accurate monitoring of gestational processes, including photographic images which enhance public perceptions of the unborn child

1962

Ashley Montagu's Prenatal Influences summarizes the expanding information about fetal life

1960s

New York psychologist, Lee Salk, conducts several investigations of prenatal imprinting from the mother's blood surging past the placenta, identifying various permanent behavioral indicators; neuroanatomist Marian Diamond at the University of California, Berkeley, begins three decades of research which show stimulating maternal environments alter brain physiology in rat offspring, and improve their learning skills

1920s - 1950s

Increasing evidence of second-trimester audition and multisensory fetal reaction to the maternal environment, with in utero learning suggested by psychologist David Spelt; psychologist Donald Hebb, McGill University, Montreal, posits a neurogenetic hypothesis that early enrichment produces physiological changes in the brain which promote reasoning abilities

1924

Albrecht Peiper, Leipzig University pediatrician, visually confirms prenatal response to outside stimuli by observing distension from kicking in the maternal abdomen after an automobile horn is sounded

1890

As the Quing dynasty of China was forming a republic, the civic expectations for progeny further standardized ancient in utero stimulation techniques, centering upon utopian aims

1881

William Preyer, in The Mind of the Child, discovers cerebral functions are initiated before birth

1690

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by the British philosopher, John Locke, contains the presumption that a fetus is capable of thought, and its ideas can be specifically influenced from outside the womb

c. 1000

Japan adapts Chinese prebirth arts to its society, institutionalizing stimulation as taikyo; over time, this focus shifts from superstitious precautions to a theistic and then imperial rationale, by the 20th century amalgamated with an overtly educational approach

c. 600

Talmudic writings reference fetal awareness

c. 400

The surgeon Susruta of India believed the unborn child begins seeking sensation late in the first trimester, its mind at work by five months

c. 350 BCE

Prenatal receptivity to external factors surmised by Aristotle

c. 400 BCE

Plato asserts that vibration is the primary cosmic principle

c. 450 BCE

Chinese culture formalizes special childbearing treatment, thereby acknowledging health, dietary, emotional, and stimulatory effects--including music--upon the fetus

c. 500 BCE

Confucius suggests that the fetal environment can determine behavior

Prehistory

Gestation rituals included dancing to instrumental music; still observed in Polynesian, African, and Asian tribal practices involving the pregnant mother