The Organization of Non-nutritive Sucking in the Premature Infant.

Barrett, Thomas E.; Miller, Leon K.

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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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