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The Effect of Malnutrition on Autonomic Reactivity to an Auditory Signal: Some Preliminary Findings.
Download full textLester, Barry M. – 1973
Two experiments are reported in which cardiac habituation and dishabituation to pure tone stimuli were studied in well and malnourished Guatemalan infants. In both studies the magnitude of the orienting response was found to be attenuated or completely absent in infants suffering from nutritional insult. The findings were taken as evidence of a…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Environmental Influences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedLester, Barry M.; and Brazelton, T. Berry – Child Development, 1984
Replies to Scanlon's criticism of Lester, Als, and Brazelton's 1982 reanalysis of Scanlon, Nelson, Grylack, and Smith's 1979 data. Discusses the accuracy and interpretation of the ponderal index, reiterating that Lester et al. suggested a hypothesis, not a proof, that low birth weight, combined with maternal obstetric drugs, negatively affects…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Body Height, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedLester, Barry M. – Child Development, 1976
The cry sounds of 12 well-nourished and 12 malnourished male infants were compared using behavioral and acoustic measures. (BRT)
Descriptors: Acoustics, Behavior Patterns, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
