Manuela Filippa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5083398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Filippa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Filippa |
| SIGNATURE | FILIPPA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1310-8008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations
The musicality of human communication before the onset of words enables mutual interaction from early infancy and lays the foundation for language development. The present study investigated the development of infants’ emotional vocalizations across the first year of life, with a specific focus on their acoustic properties. Analyses revealed systematic age-related changes in acoustic features, with pronounced shifts in pitch height, spectral clar…
Oxytocin Levels Increase and Anxiety Decreases in Mothers Who Sing and Talk to Their Premature Infants during a Painful Procedure
(1) Background: Preterm infants spend their first weeks of life in the hospital partially separated from their parents and subjected to frequent potentially painful clinical procedures. Previous research has found that early vocal contact reduces infant pain perception while simultaneously increasing oxytocin (OXT) levels. The current study aims to assess the effect of maternal singing and speaking on mothers. (2) Methods: During a painful proced…
Maternal Voice and Tactile Stimulation Modulate Oxytocin in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother-infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting mother-infant bonding. The release of this hormone might be influenced by either vocal or tactile stimulation. The main objective of the current randomized, crossover, clinical trial was to assess the salivary …
Maternal Singing but Not Speech Enhances Vagal Activity in Preterm Infants during Hospitalization
Maternal singing, but not speaking, enhances preterm infants' vagal activity in the short-term, thus improving the ANS stability. Future analyses will investigate the effect of enhanced vagal activity on short and long-term developmental outcomes of preterm infants in the NICU
Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants
In this study, we evaluate mothers' subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three s…
Effects of Early Vocal Contact in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Preterm infants are at risk for developing altered trajectories of cognitive, social, and linguistic competences compared to a term population. This is mainly due to medical and environmental factors, as they are exposed to an atypical auditory environment and simultaneously, long periods of early separation from their parents. The short-term effects of early vocal contact (EVC) on an infant's early stability have been investigated. However, ther…
Live Maternal Speech and Singing Increase Self-Touch and Eye-Opening in Preterm Newborns
Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonverbal Vocal Communication in Development
Nonverbal vocal aspects of communication, often related to affective states, are crucial to social interactions not only for animals but also for humans during early infancy, as well as being one of the pillars of human language development and acquisition. The thread that binds together the contributions to this Special Issue is the analysis of nonverbal vocal communication during development, both from ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives.…
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the Nicu
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Live Maternal Speech and Singing Increase Self-Touch and Eye-Opening in Preterm Newborns
Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonverbal Vocal Communication in Development
Nonverbal vocal aspects of communication, often related to affective states, are crucial to social interactions not only for animals but also for humans during early infancy, as well as being one of the pillars of human language development and acquisition. The thread that binds together the contributions to this Special Issue is the analysis of nonverbal vocal communication during development, both from ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives.…
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the Nicu
Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants
In this study, we evaluate mothers' subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three s…
Effects of Early Vocal Contact in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Preterm infants are at risk for developing altered trajectories of cognitive, social, and linguistic competences compared to a term population. This is mainly due to medical and environmental factors, as they are exposed to an atypical auditory environment and simultaneously, long periods of early separation from their parents. The short-term effects of early vocal contact (EVC) on an infant's early stability have been investigated. However, ther…
Maternal Singing but Not Speech Enhances Vagal Activity in Preterm Infants during Hospitalization
Maternal singing, but not speaking, enhances preterm infants' vagal activity in the short-term, thus improving the ANS stability. Future analyses will investigate the effect of enhanced vagal activity on short and long-term developmental outcomes of preterm infants in the NICU
Oxytocin Levels Increase and Anxiety Decreases in Mothers Who Sing and Talk to Their Premature Infants during a Painful Procedure
(1) Background: Preterm infants spend their first weeks of life in the hospital partially separated from their parents and subjected to frequent potentially painful clinical procedures. Previous research has found that early vocal contact reduces infant pain perception while simultaneously increasing oxytocin (OXT) levels. The current study aims to assess the effect of maternal singing and speaking on mothers. (2) Methods: During a painful proced…
Maternal Voice and Tactile Stimulation Modulate Oxytocin in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother-infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting mother-infant bonding. The release of this hormone might be influenced by either vocal or tactile stimulation. The main objective of the current randomized, crossover, clinical trial was to assess the salivary …
Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations
The musicality of human communication before the onset of words enables mutual interaction from early infancy and lays the foundation for language development. The present study investigated the development of infants’ emotional vocalizations across the first year of life, with a specific focus on their acoustic properties. Analyses revealed systematic age-related changes in acoustic features, with pronounced shifts in pitch height, spectral clar…
Infant Health and Development (9 works) · Infant Development and Preterm Care (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Audiology (4 works) · Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Neonatal intensive care unit (3 works) · Singing (3 works)