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Model of Attenuation of Sound Stimuli in Prenatal Music Therapy

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Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 471)

Abstract

Studies on the process of acoustic stimulation in prenatal period require to assess the beneficial condition for child development, as well as characteristic sounds which could negatively affect the development of auditory system, brain or even entire body. It can be provided with the simplified model of sound attenuation in the uterus, which can be represented by first order passive low pass filter. On the basis of total harmonic distortion analysis for a single sound, a proposal indicating the sound reduction in the intrauterine environment is formulated. It is hypothesised that the sound stimuli in the uterus is not the same sound as the music in the source.

Keywords

Music therapy Prenatal development Sound attenuation 
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Acknowledgments

The work has been partially financed by Polish Ministry of Science and Silesian University of Technology statutory financial support for young researchers BKM-508/RAu-3/2016.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer ScienceSilesian University of TechnologyGliwicePoland
  2. 2.Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Informatics and Medical EquipmentSilesian University of TechnologyGliwicePoland
  3. 3.Institute of Anthropology, Wroclaw University of Environmental And Life SciencesWrocławPoland

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