Haptic communication many terms such as positive, playful, control, ritualistic, task-related or unintentional. It can be both sexual (kissing is one example that some perceived as sexual), and platonic (such as hugging or a Handshake). Touch is the earliest sense to develop in the fetus. The development of an infant's haptic senses and how it relates to the development of the other senses such as vision has been the target of much research. Human babies have been observed to have enormous difficulty surviving if they do not possess a sense of touch, even if they retain sight and hearing. Infants who can
Word to the Mutha! and Gill are credited separately on the single rather than collectively as New Edition. The song samples "A Star in the Ghetto" by Average White Band and "The Jam" by Graham Central Station. A music video was filmed in and around the Roxbury Housing Projects in Boston, where five of the six (excluding Johnny Gill) New Edition members grew up. Word to the Mutha! "Word to the Mutha!" is a song co-written and performed by American contemporary R&B group Bell Biv DeVoe. It originally appeared on their debut studio album "Poison" under the title "Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and