In this paper, our goal is to explore what is known about the role of social touch during development. We first address the neural substrates of social touch and the role of tactile experience in neural development. We discuss natural variation in early exposure to social touch, followed by a discussion on experimental manipulations of social touch during development and "natural experiments", such as early institutionalization. We then consider the role of other developmental and experiential variables that predict social touch in adults. Throughout, we propose and consider new theoretical models of the role of social touch during development on later behavior and neurobiology.

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发展过程中的社交接触：对大脑和行为的长期影响。

在本文中，我们的目标是探索有关社交接触在发展过程中的作用的已知信息。我们首先解决社会接触的神经基础以及触觉经验在神经发育中的作用。我们讨论在早期接触社会接触中的自然变异，然后讨论在发展和“自然实验”（例如早期制度化）过程中对社会接触的实验性操纵。然后，我们考虑其他可预测成年人社交活动的发展和经验变量的作用。在整个过程中，我们提出并考虑了新的理论模型，即在以后的行为和神经生物学发展过程中社会接触的作用。