A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns : taste and tactile determinants of state affect and action
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A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns : taste and tactile determinants of state affect and action
（Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, serial no. 239 = v. 59,
University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
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The biological mechanisms by which sucking on a pacifier versus tasting a component of milk (sucrose) affect newborns' behaviourial states are investigated in this study of normal calm and agitated babies, as well as a subgroup of infants born to methadone-maintained mothers. The differential effects obtained for tactile and gustatory stimulation under the different conditions are discussed by the authors in the context of the psychobiology of early mother-infant interaction and of its influence on the child's development.
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