In a study by DeCasper and Spence, pregnant women read The Cat in the Hat to their developing fetuses twice a day during the final 6.5 weeks of pregnancy. What was the finding of this study?
A) The fetuses showed decreased heart rates during the reading, indicating a recognition of external stimuli.
B) The infants retained a preference for the story they had heard prenatally over a new story, indicating that familiarity from the prenatal environment can be retained.
C) The fetuses habituated to the story, and showed no reaction to continued readings after the third week.
D) The infants did not show familiarity to the story after birth, indicating habituation had taken place.

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The finding of this study was that the infants retained a preference for the story they had heard prenatally over a new story, indicating that familiarity from the prenatal environment can be retained.

In a Study by DeCasper and Spence, Pregnant Women Read