Which best describes the main finding of a study in which pregnant mothers read the story The Cat in the Hat?
A) Prior to birth, the fetus begins to mimic the sounds its mother makes.
B) After birth, infants appeared to recognize the rhythm at which their mother has read a story.
C) After birth, infants showed no reaction when they once again heard a story that had been read by their mother before they were born.
D) After birth, infants who had been read to began to speak at an earlier age than a control group that had not been read to.

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The main finding of the study was that infants appeared to recognize the rhythm at which their mother had read a story during pregnancy. Specifically, the study found that babies who had been exposed to a particular rhythm of a story in utero had a different response to the same story rhythm after birth compared to babies who had not been exposed to that rhythm in the womb.

Which Best Describes the Main Finding of a Study in Which