ABSTRACT
In carrying out reflexological research on children from birth onward, the Infant Division of the Leningrad Pedological Institute found it necessary to make a very careful study of the first moments of a child's life. It is only this period that offers the opportunity to study the child's basic, primary, "inherent" reactions that serve as the groundwork for the accumulation of "personal experience" in response to repeated stimuli from the physical and social environment. In addition, our work made clear the importance of studying the various states of a newborn child in order to understand the problem of waking and sleep.
