Depressed mothers' newborns show less discrimination of other newborns' cry sounds

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 431-435

  Field, Tiffany ^a,b   Diego, Miguel ^a   Hernandez Reif, Maria ^a   Fernandez, Mercedes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination cry sounds; Newborns of depressed mothers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; STIMULUS; SUCKING;

CRYING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547535123     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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