… ’ internal states when facing unknown or distressing situations. Here, we explored the effects
of maternal touch on 7-month-old infants’ preferences towards emotions. Infants’ looking …

… to investigate the effects of touch on infants’ emotions. During the time that … (a) touched the
objects less and waited longer to touch the objects while displaying more negative emotional …

… for the pivotal role of maternal touch in infants' emotion regulation. As a result, the regulatory
support of maternal touch was isolated from other maternal regulatory behaviours by using …

… Although maternal touch was not examined in the current study, support for this … on maternal
touch whereby it was found that mothers spent the most time using active forms of touch, …

… our understanding of the sensitivity of infants to maternal touch, and would also provide
important evidence to suggest an early communicative and functional capacity for touch. …

… Here, we investigate the reciprocal influence of gentle human touch and happy/frowning
faces on the evaluation of these stimuli, and we assess the role of oxytocin in these interactions. …

… Moreover, maternal stroking has … touch vs non-affective touch. Therefore, by analyzing
infants’ looking behavior, we aim to investigate whether faces presented in the affective touch …

… Maternal affection and stimulating touch decreased significantly during the second 6
months of life. This may relate to the infants’ accelerated gross motor development at this time, …

… In the present study, to address the gap in the literature regarding maternal touch and …
maternal touch during an emotionally charged mother–child conversation, when positive touch …

… This study explored the relationship between maternal touch and resting activity in the
developing “social brain.” As expected, the frequency of maternal touch positively predicted …