Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants,
however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are …

Previous behavioral research points to a positive relationship between maternal touch and
early social development. Here, we explored the brain correlates of this relationship. The …

The present study was designed to examine maternal touch and infants' self-regulating
behavior in full-term and very-low-birth-weight preterm (VLBW/PT) infant–mother dyads …

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 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 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 this study was twofold: to determine (1) the degree to which specific qualities
of maternal touch may contribute to the low birth weight infant's emotional and behavioural …

The mother's attunement to her infant's emotional needs influences her use of touching
behaviors during mother–infant interactions. Moreover, maternal touch appears to modulate …

Touch is the most basic mammalian maternal behavior. As soon asan infant is born,
mammalian mothers begin to engage in the species-typical repertoire of maternal behavior …

The sense of touch develops in utero and enables parent-child communication from the
earliest moments of life. Research shows that parental touch (eg, licking and grooming in …