FEBRUARY 2024 Neuroscience in the Nursery – 4th Time’s a Charm In this, the 4th edition of our newsletter, we are calling out (again) some bad advice we see popping up in way too many places online. As our concerns about white noise are becoming more...
Breaking news: it’s not white noise . . . not at all! At around 18 weeks, the unborn baby starts to hear, and these first audio experiences will be sounds of the body, like the swoosh of amniotic fluid or the maternal heartbeat. As babies enter their 6th and 7th...
JANUARY 2024 Welcome to Our First Neuroscience in the Nursery Newsletter of 2024! As we start a new year, it seems only fitting to use this issue to give you a taste of how we at RAPT Ventures (RVI) arrived at this point, courtesy of an “as told to” essay...
December 21, 2023 – “Dr. April Benasich’s groundbreaking work in neuroscience, culminating in her role as Chief Neuroscientist and co-founder of RAPTbaby™, highlights a profound commitment to leveraging scientific insights for child development. This...
Phonemes are the most basic units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a given language, and every language has its own set. In English, for example, we have the /b/as in bat or /p/ as in pat and the /i/ in pit as well as the /ī/ in lie. The...
