Newborns spontaneous arm movements are influenced by the environment

Early Human Development

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-27

  Kawai, Masatoshi ^a   Savelsbergh, G J P ^b   Wimmers, R H ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental constraints; Newborn; Spontaneous arm movements

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BATH; BODY POSITION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPINE POSITION; VIDEORECORDING;

ARM; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; SUPINE POSITION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033016903     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(98)00081-4     Document Type: Article

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