Mother-Infant Interaction and Contingency Learning in Pre-term Infants

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-36

  Wijnroks, Lex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contingency learning; Mother infant interaction; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040664621     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199703)6:1<27::aid-edp142>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Article

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