Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants
The dense representation of trigeminal mechanosensitive afferents in the lip vermilion, anterior tongue, intraoral mucosa, and temporomandibular joint allows the infant’s orofacial system to encode a wide range of somatosensory experiences during the critical period associated with feed development....
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| description | The dense representation of trigeminal mechanosensitive afferents in the lip vermilion, anterior tongue, intraoral mucosa, and temporomandibular joint allows the infant’s orofacial system to encode a wide range of somatosensory experiences during the critical period associated with feed development. Our understanding of how this complex sensorium processes texture is very limited in adults, and the putative role of texture encoding in the infant is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term effects of a novel textured pacifier experience in healthy term infants (N=28). Nonnutritive suck (NNS) compression pressure waveforms were digitized in real time using a variety of custom-molded textured pacifiers varying in spatial array density of touch domes. MANCOVA, adjusted for postmenstrual age at test and sex, revealed that infants exhibited an increase in NNS burst attempts at the expense of a degraded suck burst structure with the textured pacifiers, suggesting that the suck central pattern generator (sCPG) is significantly disrupted and reorganized by this novel orocutaneous experience. The current findings provide new insight into oromotor control as a function of the oral somatosensory environment in neurotypically developing infants. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0f72bfb8bfdc4461a114179a0057cd542025-08-20T03:54:28ZengWileyInternational Journal of Pediatrics1687-97401687-97592013-01-01201310.1155/2013/168459168459Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical InfantsAustin L. Oder0David L. Stalling1Steven M. Barlow2Communication Neuroscience Laboratories, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, Sciences and Disorders, University of Kansas, Room 3001, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-7555, USAInnara Health, Shawnee, KS 66227, USASPLH, Neuroscience, Human Biology and Bioengineering Director, Communication Neuroscience Laboratories, University of Kansas, Room 3001, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-7555, USAThe dense representation of trigeminal mechanosensitive afferents in the lip vermilion, anterior tongue, intraoral mucosa, and temporomandibular joint allows the infant’s orofacial system to encode a wide range of somatosensory experiences during the critical period associated with feed development. Our understanding of how this complex sensorium processes texture is very limited in adults, and the putative role of texture encoding in the infant is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the short-term effects of a novel textured pacifier experience in healthy term infants (N=28). Nonnutritive suck (NNS) compression pressure waveforms were digitized in real time using a variety of custom-molded textured pacifiers varying in spatial array density of touch domes. MANCOVA, adjusted for postmenstrual age at test and sex, revealed that infants exhibited an increase in NNS burst attempts at the expense of a degraded suck burst structure with the textured pacifiers, suggesting that the suck central pattern generator (sCPG) is significantly disrupted and reorganized by this novel orocutaneous experience. The current findings provide new insight into oromotor control as a function of the oral somatosensory environment in neurotypically developing infants.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/168459 |
| spellingShingle | Austin L. Oder David L. Stalling Steven M. Barlow Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants International Journal of Pediatrics |
| title | Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants |
| title_full | Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants |
| title_fullStr | Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants |
| title_short | Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants |
| title_sort | short term effects of pacifier texture on nns in neurotypical infants |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/168459 |
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