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Science 6 June 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4448, pp. 1174 - 1176
DOI: 10.1126/science.7375928
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Science, Vol 208, Issue 4448, 1174-1176
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Of human bonding: newborns prefer their mothers' voices

AJ DeCasper and WP Fifer

By sucking on a nonnutritive nipple in different ways, a newborn human could produce either its mother's voice or the voice of another female. Infants learned how to produce the mother's voice and produced it more often than the other voice. The neonate's preference for the maternal voice suggests that the period shortly after birth may be important for initiating infant bonding to the mother.


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