Tune to touch: Affective touch enhances learning of face identity in 4-month-old infants
Touch provides more than sensory input for discrimination of what is on the skin. From early in development it has a rewarding and motivational value, which may reflect an evolutionary mechanism that promotes learning and affiliative bonding. In the present study we investigated whether affective to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929317300294 |