Infant stimulation. Issues of theory and research.
This article addresses the topic of infant stimulation from two directions. The first is the developmental relevance of stimulation for infants in general; the second is the issue of differences in responsiveness to stimulation on the part of individual infants. The author will elucidate the conceptual differences between these two issues by giving examples, mostly from intervention studies with preterm infants.
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Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California.
D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000502:physiology*; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D010812:Physical Stimulation