The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility

• Main Author: Phan, Valerie Yong Chee
• Other Authors: Victoria Leong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168520
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Exploration has been studied to impact infants’ cognitive development, tuned by various factors including socialisation. As socialisation serves multiple functions to motivate infant’s exploratory behaviours in early life, this paper streamlines the provider of socialisation to examine the effects...