| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Early attachment : maternal voice preference in one- and three-day-old infants |
1981 |
702 |
The current literature on infant development points to a new appreciation of the perceptual and learning capabilities of the newborn. Sensorially precocial and sensitive to a variety of reinforcement contingencies, neonates are prepared to engage in ... |
| A test of Kohlberg's theory : the development of moral reasoning in deaf and hearing individuals |
1985 |
349 |
Kohlberg's theory of moral development suggests moral reasoning develops in stages. It argues that because moral reasoning clearly is reasoning, sophisticated moral reasoning must sophisticated logical reasoning. It also proposes that advances in mor... |
| Newborns' preference for female voices as a function of spectral composition |
1984 |
236 |
Research with human fetuses and neonates has demonstrated that last trimester fetuses can hear in utero and that neonates prefer auditory stimuli which are experienced prenatally to novel auditory stimuli. This study was conducted to determine if pre... |
| Prenatal auditory experience with melodies : effects on postnatal auditory preferences in human newborns |
1985 |
375 |
It has recently been demonstrated that human newborns prefer a story their mothers had read aloud while pregnant over an unfamiliar story. It is unclear from these results, however, whether the newborns were using word information, non-word informati... |
| Differential reinforcing value of speech and heartbeats : a measure of functional lateralization in the neonate |
1985 |
181 |
By learning to suck on a nonnutritive nipple in temporal patterns selected by the experimenter, newborns could control whether the sounds of filtered female speech entered their left ear or their right ear. Similarly, other newborns could learn to co... |