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As a preliminary to more specific data on the subject, the author gives a brief history of studies in the field of infant and child development and points out the problems inherent in the several approaches. He also discusses the importance of the earliest psychophysiologic differentiation of the infant and its
relation to the mother-infant interaction. The measurement of infant cardiac rate in various situations is listed as one approach to this study.