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Margaret Addabbo; Elena Guida; Victoria Licht; Chiara Turati – Developmental Science, 2025
Touch is an extraordinary sensory, communicative, and affective experience that has cascading positive effects on infants' socio-emotional development and neurobiological functioning. This study aims to explore whether maternal touch can influence infants' well-known attentional biases toward fearful facial expressions. Visual behaviour of…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Mothers
Feldman, Ruth; Singer, Magi; Zagoory, Orna – Developmental Science, 2010
Animal studies demonstrate that maternal touch and contact regulate infant stress, and handling during periods of maternal deprivation attenuates the stress response. To measure the effects of touch on infant stress reactivity during simulated maternal deprivation, 53 dyads were tested in two paradigms: still-face (SF) and still-face with maternal…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Play, Infants, Animals

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