… unspecified maternal touch on infant behaviour, is imperative to obtain a clear understanding
of this relationship. The first objective was to compare the overall amount of maternal touch …

… Touch Scale (FTS) was created to address this need. The FTS examines the function of
maternal touch … functions of maternal touching during face-to-face still-face interactions between …

… differs across ethnic groups and that maternal touch may help to … maternal touch differs in
ethnic groups, using the Still Face Paradigm. A cross-cultural examination of maternal touch …

… the themes of (E) maternal behavior in relation to infant … from the regular still-face to the
still-face-with-touch episode, … gaze aversion during the still-face-with-touch episode and during …

… The present study was designed to examine maternal touch and … in a Still-Face (SF)
procedure. Mothers used high levels of touching (82% of the interaction) and the functions of touch …

… to gaze at their mothers’ hands were normal interaction periods when their faces were
dynamic. Given the prevalence of maternal touch, it is important to determine the role of the tactile …

… of the still-face procedure where maternal availability … maternal touch was not examined
in the current study, support for this hypothesis can be drawn from research on maternal touch …

… longitudinally examined maternal and infant responsiveness in face-to-face interactions at …
talk and touch the infant as she wished. For the still-face phase, she was asked to become still …

… that maternal touch during moments of simulated maternal … , similar to the effects of touch
on young mammals. Two stress… when maternal still-face was accompanied by maternal touch…

… Mothers were asked to be still faced and silent, and: (a) they could use touch to interact
with their infants (SF+T), (b) they were to obtain the maximum smiling from their infants using …