During the first years of life, maternal touch can serve different functions including facilitation
of child's gaze orientation to faces which is a key precursor for social attention. Although …

The current study was designed to investigate the role of infant touch during early mother–
infant interactions with changes in maternal availability. Forty-four dyads participated in the …

Contact behaviours such as touch, have been shown to be influential channels of nonverbal
communication between mothers and infants. While existing research has examined the …

Multiple studies have demonstrated the critical role of touch in human development and the
impact of mother's tactile input for an infant's well-being. However, the literature lacks a …

Touch is a critical channel of communication used by mothers to communicate and interact
with their infants and to contribute to their infants' socio-emotional development. The present …

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 …

Maternal touch and infants' self‐regulatory behaviours were examined during a modified
Still‐Face with Touch (SF+ T) procedure. Mothers and their 5½‐month‐old infants …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the communicative functions of mutual
touch during mother-infant interactions and their relation with infants' affect and the quality of …

Maternal touch is considered crucial in regulating infants' internal states when facing
unknown or distressing situations. Here, we explored the effects of maternal touch on 7 …

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 …