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Infant Touching Behaviour during Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interactions
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Moszkowski, Robin J.; Stack, Dale M. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
The study of infant communication during mother-infant interactions has largely focused on infants' distal behaviours, while neglecting their more proximal behaviours, such as touch. Yet, touch is an important modality through which infants and mothers communicate; it is also a vital means through which infants self-regulate and explore their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Infants' Tactual Discrimination of Novel and Familiar Tactual Stimuli.
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Soroka, Sherri MacKay; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Forty 10-month-old infants were given two minutes to explore tactually an object in a totally darkened room. Subsequently, during a two-minute test trial in the dark, 10 infants were given the same object and 10 were given a novel shape. Novel shapes were manipulated significantly longer than familiar forms. (RH)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Object Manipulation