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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
