The father’s singing voice may impact premature infants’ brain more than their mother’s: A NICU single-arm exploratory study protocol and preliminary data on a singing and EEG framework based on the fundamental frequency of voice and kinship

• Efthymios Papatzikis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: efthymio@oslomet.no

  Affiliations Department of Early Childhood Education and Care, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, Advanced Health Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Technologies (ADEPT) Research Group, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ‘Panagiotis and Aglaia Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1801-6986

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• Kyriakos Dimitropoulos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5074-0100

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• Kassandra Tataropoulou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ‘Panagiotis and Aglaia Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

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• Maria Kyrtsoudi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Clinical Psychoacoustics Laboratory, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Elena Pasoudi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Athens, Greece

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• John M. O’Toole,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation CergenX. Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

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• Angeliki Nika

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ‘Panagiotis and Aglaia Kyriakou’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece

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