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Mother-infant communication: carrying understanding to a new level
1Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. scgammie@wisc.edu
Abstract:
A recent study has found that carrying - not just holding - by human mothers has a specific calming effect on crying infants, inducing a coordinated physiological response that includes a reduction in heart rate. A similar response in mice has opened the door to elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms.
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