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Published online 2 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040126-17
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Sounds inside the womb revealed
Sheep study spies on what a fetus can hear.
A team of US researchers has made an inventive attempt to discover how much an unborn baby can hear in the womb — by making recordings from the inner ear of a fetal sheep.
They found that low frequencies reach the womb with ease, whereas higher-pitched sounds are more muffled.
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