Table 1.

Participants’ information. The number of valid trials refers to the number of trials included in the analysis after off-line coding of the infant’s behavior during the study. The first number refers to the mean value across the group and the bracketed number refers to the standard deviation.

	experiment 1
n	21
age (days)	160.19(13.91)
female/male	8:13
head circumference (cm)	43.16(1.81)
number of trials completed	10.87 (1.90)
valid trials	10.61 (2.01)
valid trials in affective touch condition	5.23 (1.09)
valid trials in non-affective touch condition	5.38 (0.97)
number of rejected channels per infant	0