Relationship between cardiac rate and nonnutritive sucking in human infants.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 128-131
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022865
Abstract
High levels of heart rate were associated with increased likelihood of "spontaneous" nonnutritive sucking. More important, nonnutritive sucking was anticipated by a rise in heart rate. Anticipatory cardiac rate changes are involved in a variety of apprently spontaneous activities in several vertebrate species. Relationship between anticipatory cardio-acceleration and sucking seems relevant to studies of infantile auditory sensitivity involving nonnutritive sucking as response measure, as well as studies of conditioned sucking.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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