Abstract
This study explores the human newborn's ability to use interoceptive cues for making adaptive responses. For independent groups of infants, either the first suck, third suck, or fifth suck in a nonnutritive sucking burst was paired with a palm press which elicited the Babkin reflex. The first suck group and a nonstimulated sucking group served as controls for a palm-press stimulation effect for the third and fifth suck groups. Sucking suppression was obtained in a poststimulation period for the 3rd suck group, considered to have on optimal temporal pairing of the suckle response and Babkin stimulation. It was proposed that the infant's behavioral transition or corresponding state shift related to sucking initiation served to cue the subsequent onset of palm-press stimulation through respondent conditioning processes.
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