The dietary choices a mother makes during pregnancy offer her developing fetus its earliest
exposure to the family's culinary preferences. This comprehensive literature review …

This chapter focuses on the roles of olfaction in the adaptive responsiveness of newborns
around birth. It starts with the facts that (l) the fluids that normally contact the nasal …

Explaining the emergence of behavioral organization and functional action patterns during
ontogeny represents a challenge for developmental science. Using interlimb coordination in …

Many animals hesitate when initially consuming a novel food and increase their
consumption of that food between the first and second sessions of access—a process …

The role of sensory feedback in the early ontogeny of motor coordination remains a topic of
speculation and debate. On E20 of gestation (the 20th day after conception, 2 days before …

Previous research shows that prenatal binge ethanol exposure during gestation days (GD)
17 to 20 of the rat, increases postnatal ethanol intake and enhances ethanol's palatability …

Rat pups are more resistant to retroactive associative interference 3 hr after birth than 24 hr
later [Cheslock et al.[2004] Developmental Science, 7, 581–598]. The present experiments …

Rat fetuses can perceive chemosensory stimuli derived from their mother's diet, and they
may learn about those stimuli. In previous studies we have observed that prenatal exposure …

Animals, including humans, are reluctant to eat a new food because they have no
information about the content—whether it is safe to eat or poisonous. In fact, on first …

La fixité du milieu intérieur est la condition d'une vie libre et indépendante.(“The constancy
of the internal environment is the condition for a free and independent life.”)(Claude …