Infant touching behaviour during mother-infant face-to-face interactions

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-319

  Moszkowski, Robin J ^a   Stack, Dale M ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mother infant interactions; Still face procedure; Touch

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547345294     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.510     Document Type: Article

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