Publications by authors named "Eline Bekkers"
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- Obesity in both women and men can lead to reduced fertility rates and an increased risk of miscarriage, which may apply across various BMI categories.
- A study conducted in Rotterdam from 2017 to 2021 examined how preconception BMI influences time to pregnancy and miscarriage among 3604 couples.
- Results indicated that higher BMI in both partners correlates with decreased chances of conceiving within a month, with every unit increase in BMI linked to lower fecundability and greater risks of subfertility and miscarriage.
The maternal voice appears to have a special role in infants' language processing. The current eye-tracking study investigated whether 24-month-olds (n = 149) learn novel words easier while listening to their mother's voice compared to hearing unfamiliar speakers. Our results show that maternal speech facilitates the formation of new word-object mappings across two different learning settings: a live setting in which infants are taught by their own mother or the experimenter, and a prerecorded setting in which infants hear the voice of either their own or another mother through loudspeakers.
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