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“It takes two to know one” – Tongue protrusion-retraction is only one small facet of early intersubjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2017

Kenneth J. Aitken
Kenneth J. Aitken*
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Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom. kenneth.aitken@glasgow.ac.uk https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/staff/?action=person&id=4edcebe68197
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Abstract

Tongue protrusion-retraction is critical to early nutrition but is also a gustatory-olfactory aspect of early infant social behaviour that is, in part, reliant on pre-natal exposure and learning. Most early development is necessarily dyadic and intrinsically associated with other aspects of social functioning.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e382
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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