Infants spend a lot of time in bodily contact with their parents; still, parents exhibit significant
individual differences in the amount of touch they provide to their infants (Jean et al., 2009) …

Caregiver touch is crucial for infants' healthy development, but its role in shaping infant
cognition has been relatively understudied. In particular, despite strong premises to …

Naturally occurring high levels of caregiver touch promote offspring development in many
animal species. Yet, caregiver touch remains a relatively understudied topic in human …

Touch is one of the first senses to develop and one of the earliest modalities for infant-
caregiver communication. While studies have explored the benefits of infant touch in terms …

Mother-infant interactions are fundamental to infant socio-emotional development. Through
mutually regulated exchanges in the first year of life, infants develop critical communicative …

The caregiver's touch behavior during early infancy is linked to multiple developmental
outcomes. However, social touch remains a challenging construct to operationalize, and …

Caregiving touch has been shown to be essential for the growth and development of human
infants. However, the physiological and behavioral mechanisms that underpin infants' …

The parent-infant relationship is the first to develop for the infant, as parents are infants most
common and significant social partners. Further, touch represents a critical means of …

The study of infant communication during mother–infant interactions has largely focused on
infants' distal behaviours, while neglecting their more proximal behaviours, such as touch …

Infants' social touch with caregivers has been considered a means of regulating infant
physiological and emotional state. In non-human mammals, such regulatory function also …