| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,930,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥11,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We verified that fetal mouth opening and fetal heart rate increase when fetuses hear their mothers voice from the second to the third trimester of pregnancy. Our results and recent findings in another project suggest that using sophisticated fetal behavioral indices, for example, more minuscule facial movements, research on human unique characteristics in terms of emergence of cross-modal perception would be established. Comparative data was also obtained to understand fetal brain and behavioral development in chimpanzees, which would be the basis for further research of early development and the evolution for cross-modal perception in humans.
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