Thermal, olfactory, and tactile stimuli increase oral grasping of an artificial nipple by the newborn rat

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 317-326

  Koffman, Donna J ^a   Petrov, Evgeniy S ^a   Varlinskaya, Elena I ^a   Smotherman, William P ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Artificial nipple; Early feeding; Olfaction; Suckling; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; NEWBORN; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUCKING; TACTILE STIMULATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SMELL; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TOUCH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031726364     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199812)33:4<317::AID-DEV3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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