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ERIC Number: EJ090001
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1973
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The Organization of Non-nutritive Sucking in the Premature Infant
Barrett, Thomas E.; Miller, Leon K.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 16, 3, 472-483, Dec 73
Investigated changes in non-nutritive sucking behavior of premature infants when light stimulation was presented. Results generally support past evidence that premature infants are capable of making orienting and discriminative responses to visual stimuli and chronological age effects were indicated. (DP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Infant Behavior, Premature Infants, Visual Discrimination
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Identifiers: Sucking Behavior