Facial and autonomic responses to biological and artificial olfactory stimuli in human neonates: Re-examining early hedonic discrimination of odors

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 745-758

  Soussignan, Robert ^a,b   Schaal, Benoist ^c   Marlier, Luc ^c   Jiang, Tao ^d  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Human neonate; Milk; Olfaction; Sensory development

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; VANILLIN;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BEHAVIOR; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MILK; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SMELLING;

EID: 0030799265     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00187-X     Document Type: Article

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