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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Fifteen million babies are born prematurely every year, worldwide. In some cases, the early births can be life-threatening—or cause developmental issues.
"They have more attention-deficit difficulties. They can have a higher risk of having autism, and in general socio-emotional regulation issues." Petra Hüppi, a pediatrician and neonatologist at the University Hospital of Geneva.
Now, she and her colleagues have evidence that a simple tool could help those preterm babies' brains develop: music. But before you cue the Amadeus:
"When I thought about Mozart, I thought, this is a very complex musical structure and I could hardly imagine that such an immature brain would be able to fully capture the complexity of Mozart."
So instead, she recruited the harpist Andreas Vollenweider, who worked with neonatal nurses to determine which sounds would most stimulate infants' brains. He then composed a suite of three eight-minute-long tracks, which the nurses played to 20 preterm babies using wireless headphones embedded in little baby caps. Each baby heard five tracks a week for six weeks on average.

Then Hüppi's team used MRIs to visualize activity in the babies' brains. And what they found was that preemies who listened to tunes had brain networks that more closely resembled those of full-term babies compared to their counterparts who didn't get the treatment. The music listeners had greater connectivity among brain regions, such as areas involved in sensory and higher-order cognitive functions—indicating that music listening might have enduring effects on brain development.
The details are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Of course, many questions still remain. "How much should they listen to that? Was the music given in the right way? Would it be much better if it was something more lively than recorded music? Was it too simple? Could it be more complex?"
But Hüppi said one thing parents can already do is sing to their children. Plus, she said, it doesn't really matter if you can carry a tune.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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全世界每年有1500万早产儿出生T|Ifq50yFEF。在某些情况下，早产可能会危及生命，或导致发育问题ac%GcC+Bb7-@#8W-lL6-。
“早产儿更有可能有注意力缺失的问题Oa(TjmfX@e(=.v8。他们患自闭症的风险更高，一般来说，他们也更可能产生社会情绪调节问题pJMvEueM70*Se!g。”日内瓦大学医院的儿科医生和新生儿学家佩特拉·胡皮说到]5BbrQ)0^Y6%0dlyW(。
现在，她和同事有证据表明，一种简单的工具有助于早产儿的大脑发育：音乐hi,#p8Q,lye5qiGBJc。（莫扎特的音乐）不过在你提莫扎特之前：
“当我想到莫扎特时，就会想到他那极为复杂的音乐结构，我无法想象如此不成熟的婴儿大脑能完全捕捉到莫扎特音乐的复杂性T,6Y@e_5NO+x&。”
因此，她聘请了竖琴师安德列斯·佛伦怀德，由他与新生儿护士合作，确定哪种声音最能刺激婴儿的大脑vPBCmAYUO#1。之后，他创作了一套由3首8分钟长的乐曲组成的组曲，护士用嵌在婴儿帽中的无线耳机播放给20名早产儿听pCwC#7A(^j4XoRsh5et。在六周内，每名婴儿平均每周听五首乐曲%^+7lR!)B!W~k0。
然后，胡皮团队用核磁共振成像呈现婴儿大脑的活动4fS_1_|YgN7x。他们发现，与没有接受这种治疗的早产儿相比，听音乐的早产儿的大脑网络更接近足月婴儿l!96M2c*T+XaVz[=I。听音乐者大脑区域之间的连通性更强，这些区域包括涉及感官和高级认知功能的区域——这表明听音乐可能对大脑发育有持久影响.Y@_ZU(D[CK。
详情刊登在《美国国家科学院院刊》上a^6i]Rk4F-|j5。
当然，现在还有很多问题没有得到解答S=Nh6N=*FUHtey^YW。“早产儿应该听多少音乐？播放音乐的方式是否正确？如果换成比录制音乐更生动的音乐，效果会更好吗？音乐是不是太简单了？音乐可以更复杂些吗？”
但胡皮表示，父母已经可以做的一件事就是给孩子唱歌K@eBAzF=tCeya*tX5zq1。此外，她还说唱歌跑不跑调其实并不重要&V#f)i2N=;dX。
谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学PdMa0=MotWb。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔Agc!gzN_j#!B%vw@Ja。

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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能够…的；
If you need help at work, your Personnel Manager should be able to help.
如果你工作中需要帮助，人事经理应该能帮上忙eoHoxC]V&N*K54X^kczc。
2. a suite of 一套；
Morris executed a suite of twelve drawings in 1978.
莫里斯在1978年创作了由12幅画组成的一组作品i-*4pk^(v!3Tor。
3. on average 平均起来；按平均值；
On average each report requires 1,000 hours to prepare.
准备一份报告平均需要1,000小时~i@N&Pe[T]。
4. compared to 与…相比；和…比起来；
The cost was peanuts compared to a new kitchen.
与建新厨房相比，那笔费用微不足道+5b7Bu1oyqJkf=2iO。