High-Amplitude Sucking and Newborns: The Quest for Underlying Mechanisms

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-198

  Floccia, Caroline ^a,b,c   Christophe, Anne ^a   Bertoncini, Josiane ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c FAPSE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; PERIODICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REINFORCEMENT; SUCKING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MALE; PERIODICITY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031068859     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1996.2349     Document Type: Article

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