ReviewiScience2021
Physical contact in parent-infant relationship and its effect on fostering a feeling of safety.
Review in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of parental touch and companionship on the emergence period of paediatric snoring surgery under general anaesthesia.The Journal of laryngology and otology · 2026Trial
- Behaviour of a Harbour Seal (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Early-life maternal care is required for the typical development of calming responses to back stroking.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Development of interoception: the critical role of maternal affective touch in early attachment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- The emotional responses to the sounds of organic affective tactile gestures.Psychological research · 2025Article
- It's Safe to Look: Maternal Touch Affects Infants' Fear Bias.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- The Role of Play in the Social Development of Grey Seal (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Automatic assessment of infant carrying and holding using at-home wearable recordings.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A pilot study of Kangaroo mother care in early essential newborn care in resource-limited areas of China: the facilitators and barriers to implementation.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Neurobiology of Parental Regulation of the Infant and Its Disruption by Trauma Within Attachment.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Children's age matters: Parental burnout in Chilean families during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The infant-caregiver relationship involves physical contact for feeding, moving, and other cares, and such contact also encourages the infant to form an attachment, an emotional bond with the caregivers. Physical contact always accompanies somatosensory perception, which is detected by mechanosensory neurons and processed in the brain. Physical contact triggers sensorimotor reflexes such as Transport Response in rodent infants, and calm human infants while being carried. Tactile sensation and deep pressure in physical interactions, such as hugging, can function as emotional communication between infant and caregiver, which can alter the behavior and mood of both the infant and caregiver. This review summarizes the findings related to physical contact between the infant and the caregiver in terms of pleasant, noxious, and neutral somatosensation and discusses how somatosensory perceptions foster a feeling of safety that is important for infant's psychosocial development.
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