Differential gazing and vocal response to mother and stranger of full-term and preterm infants across age.
Full-term infants at both 2 and 3 months and preterm ones at 3 months from due date vocalized more to mother than to a stranger and gazed more at a stranger than the mother. Preterm infants at 3 months from birth, but 6 weeks from due date, did not show differential responding by any mode, indicating the importance of maturational rather than environmental factors in these behaviors.
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Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA.
D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012931:Social Environment; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception