Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body

Eszter Somogyi; Mollie Hamilton; Lisa K. Chinn; Lisa Jacquey; Tobias Heed; Matej Hoffmann; Jeffrey J. Lockman; Jacqueline Fagard; J. Kevin O'Regan

doi:10.1111/cdev.13891

Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body

Eszter Somogyi, Mollie Hamilton, Lisa K. Chinn, Lisa Jacquey, Tobias Heed, Matej Hoffmann, Jeffrey J. Lockman, Jacqueline Fagard, J. Kevin O'Regan

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Abstract

This longitudinal study investigated the effect of experience with tactile stimulation on infants' ability to reach to targets on the body, an important adaptive skill. Infants were provided weekly tactile stimulation on eight body locations from 4 to 8 months of age (N = 11), comparing their ability to reach to the body to infants in a control group who did not receive stimulation (N = 10). Infants who received stimulation were more likely to successfully reach targets on the body than controls by 7 months of age. These findings indicate that tactile stimulation facilitates the development of reaching to the body by allowing infants to explore the sensorimotor correlations emerging from the stimulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e154-e165
Number of pages	12
Journal	Child Development
Volume	94
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13891
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2023

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