Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence for Gestational Age Effects in Healthy Preterm and Fullterm Infants Studied Two Weeks after Expected Due Date.

Duffy, Frank H.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ417132

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Publication Date: 1990

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Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence for Gestational Age Effects in Healthy Preterm and Fullterm Infants Studied Two Weeks after Expected Due Date.

Duffy, Frank H.; And Others

Child Development, v61 n4 p1271-86 Aug 1990

Concludes that some differences attributable to gestational age at birth are explained by the cumulative effect of minor but unavoidable complications associated with premature birth. Other effects may result from developmentally inappropriate sensorimotor stimulation consequent to the premature experience of an extrauterine environment. (RH)

Descriptors: Behavior, Infants, Premature Infants

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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