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Auditory processing deficits in growth restricted fetuses affect later language developmentBarbara S Kisilevsky
School of Nursing, Queen s University and Kingston General Hospital, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, Ont, Canada K7L 3N6
Med Hypotheses 68:620-8. 2007..Speech perception that lays the foundation for later language competence will differ in growth restricted compared to normally grown fetuses and be associated with later language abilities...- Effects of experience on fetal voice recognitionBarbara S Kisilevsky
Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 14:220-4. 2003..It supports an epigenetic model of speech perception, presuming an interaction between genetic expression of neural development and species-specific experience... - The still-face effect in Chinese and Canadian 3- to 6-month-old infantsB S Kisilevsky
School of Nursing, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Dev Psychol 34:629-39. 1998..Although Chinese infants took longer to begin smiling, responding was similar in both cultures, despite differences in mothers' behavior: Chinese mothers played with the infants' arms; Canadian mothers played with the legs... - Comparison of fetal behavior in low- and high-risk pregnanciesBarbara S Kisilevsky
Queen s University School of Nursing, 90 Barrie Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Fetal Pediatr Pathol 24:1-20. 2005..The finding that high-risk fetuses showed atypical responses to auditory stimuli indicates a need to examine the relation between fetal auditory function and later language acquisition... - Maturation of fetal responses to musicS Kisilevsky
Queen s University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada
Dev Sci 7:550-9. 2004..These findings suggest a change in processing of complex sounds at around 33 weeks GA, with responding limited to the acoustic properties of the signal in younger fetuses but attention playing a role in older fetuses... - Maturation of human fetal responses to airborne sound in low- and high-risk fetusesB S Kisilevsky
School of Nursing, Queen s University and Kingston General Hospital, 90 Barrie Street, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Canada
Early Hum Dev 58:179-95. 2000..Differential responses observed over gestation in the high-risk group most likely indicate differential functional development of the auditory-response system... - Maturation of body and breathing movements in 24-33 week-old fetuses threatening to deliver prematurelyB S Kisilevsky
Ontario Ministry of Health Career Scientist, School of Nursing, Queen s University and Kingston General Hospital, Canada
Early Hum Dev 55:25-38. 1999..The observed differential behaviours were associated with prematurity and most likely associated with events leading to premature labour... - Maturation of fetal heart rate and body movement in 24-33-week-old fetuses threatening to deliver prematurelyB S Kisilevsky
School of Nursing, 90 Barrie Street, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 38:78-86. 2001..It was concluded that maturational changes in spontaneous fetal heart rate and maternally perceived body movements in fetuses threatening to deliver prematurely parallel those of low-risk fetuses... - Fetal behavior in smoking compared to non-smoking pregnant womenB Cowperthwaite
Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Infant Behav Dev 30:422-30. 2007..To determine the effects of maternal smoking on fetal spontaneous behavior and auditory processing... 
Fetal sensitivity to properties of maternal speech and languageB S Kisilevsky
Queen s University, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Infant Behav Dev 32:59-71. 2009..They suggest that neural networks sensitive to properties of the mother's voice and native-language speech are being formed...- Atypical fetal voice processing in preeclamptic pregnancyBarbara S Kisilevsky
School of Nursing, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:34-40. 2011..To compare fetal heart rate (HR) response to the mother's voice in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with those of fetuses in uneventful, normotensive pregnancies... - Maternal heart rate variability and fetal behavior in hypertensive and normotensive pregnanciesC Ann Brown
Queen s University School of Nursing, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Biol Res Nurs 10:134-44. 2008..These findings suggest that the maternal autonomic system influences fetal cardiac function in pregnancies complicated by hypertension... - An exploratory study of fetal behavior at 33 and 36 weeks gestational age in hypertensive womenJ Warner
School of Nursing, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen's University Kingston, General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 41:156-68. 2002.... - Fetal sensory-elicited body movements differ in breech compared to cephalic positionJ A Van der Meulen
School of Nursing, Queen s University and Kingston General Hospital, 92 Barrie Street, Kingston, ON, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 50:530-4. 2008..Breech fetuses had fewer body movements to a vibroacoustic stimulus and more to an airborne sound. These findings raise the possibility of differential perceptual experience before birth... - Fetal behavior in diabetic and nondiabetic pregnant women: An exploratory studyC L Allen
School of Nursing, Queen s University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 35:69-80. 1999..These findings suggest immaturity and differential functional development of sensory-motor response systems in fetuses of diabetic mothers... - The effects of exercise conditioning in normal and overweight pregnant women on blood pressure and heart rate variabilitySherri S Stutzman
School of Nursing, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Biol Res Nurs 12:137-48. 2010..The results suggest that an exercise program could attenuate the increase in BP and the loss of parasympathetic tone associated with pregnancy, especially in overweight women... - Estimated cardiac vagal tone predicts fetal responses to mother's and stranger's voicesLaura S Smith
Algonquin College, Room C230, 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8
Dev Psychobiol 49:543-7. 2007..This finding suggests that vagal tone plays a moderating role in the cardiac responses of term fetuses to familiar and unfamiliar stimuli... - Gender differences in functional capacity following myocardial infarction: an exploratory studyLoretta A Jarrell
School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, ON
Can J Cardiovasc Nurs 15:28-33. 2005..8 METs) than men (M = 7.3 METs). This indicates a need for gender-sensitive counselling for unsupervised exercise rehabilitation during early recovery following MI...