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## Background: Numerous studies have established that newborns can memorize tactile information about the specific features of an object with their hands and detect differences with another object. however, the robustness of haptic memory abilities has already been examined in preterm newborns and in full-term infants, but not yet in full-term newborns. this research is aimed to better understand the robustness of haptic memory abilities at birth by examining the effects of a change in the objects' temperature and haptic interference. ## Methods: Sixty-eight full-term newborns (mean postnatal age: 2.5 days) were included. the two experiments were conducted in three phases: habituation (repeated presentation of the same object, a prism or cylinder in the newborn's hand), discrimination (presentation of a novel object), and recognition (presentation of the familiar object). in experiment 1, the change in the objects' temperature was controlled during the three phases. ## Results and conclusion: Results reveal that newborns can memorize specific features that differentiate prism and cylinder shapes by touch, and discriminate between them, but surprisingly they did not show evidence of

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Author

Fleur Lejeune; Cristina Borradori Tolsa; Edouard Gentaz; Koviljka Barisnikov

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0163-6383)

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)