Deliverable Item 4 . 3 Results of behavioral experiments with infants

Deliverable Item 5 . 4 Initial Experiments with Multiple Sensory Modalities Integration

Short Description: We have implemented a model which is ment for extracting coherent representations from multi-modal data. The model consists of a hierarchy of interconnected units. Initial experiments which verify that the model works in principle were reported in D5.3. This deliverable reports experiments with more realistic multi-modal data and discusses the background and motivation of the...

Behavioral characteristics in 3-12 month-old infants with Atopic Dermatitis: A case-control study

Background and aim: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disorder that is most common in early childhood. Both immunological and psychological factors are important in AD pathogenesis and should therefore be taken into account. The aim of this study was to compare behavioral characteristics of 30 infants (3-12 month-old) with AD with 40 controls.Materials and Methods: Th...

The Effect of Back Massage on Anxiety Components of Mothers With Preterm Infants

Introduction: Upon hospitalization of a premature infant immediately after giving birth, mothers would experience high levels of anxiety. One of the essential non-pharmacological interventions to control the anxiety is massage. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of massage on the anxiety of mothers with preterm infants.                                                       ...

Deliverable Item 2 . 3 A common psycho - physical vocabulary

Infant perception of numerosity.

A multiple habituation paradigm was used to determine whether 10--12-month-old infants were able to discriminate between visual arrays which differed only in their numerosity (2 vs. 3, 3, vs. 4, or 4 vs. 5 items). 96 infants were tested in one of two conditions. In the heterogeneous condition, infants were habituated to a series of slides in which only the number of items remained invariant, wh...