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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 reviewedLasky, Robert E.; Klein, Robert E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1979
Demonstrates that eye contact per se, and not solely the inherent attractiveness of the eyes and face, is salient to five-month-old infants. Five-month-old infants can distinguish when another person is looking at them, rather than at a nearby location. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedLasky, Robert E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
The behavioral development of rural Guatemalan infants was assessed shortly after birth on a Neonatal Assessment Scale (NAS) and at 6-, 15-, and 24-months-of-age on a Composite Infant Scale (CIS). Summary variables based on NAS performance poorly predicted later assessed performance even as recently as six months after birth. The CIS modestly…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
