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Science 20 January 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4326, pp. 322 - 324
DOI: 10.1126/science.619460
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Science, Vol 199, Issue 4326, 322-324
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Precocious cardiac orienting in a human anencephalic infant

FK Graham, LA Leavitt, and BD Strock

An anencephalic infant, 3 to 6 weeks old, responded to acoustic stimulation with cardiac decelerations typical of the response pattern seen in normal, older infants. Such precocity implies unexpected competence of lower brain structures and suggests that, in the normal infant, feedback from immature higher centers may sometimes interfere with rather than modulate the functioning of lower centers.


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