Newborns learn to identify a face in eight/tenths of a second?

Developmental Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-84

  Walton, Gail E ^b   Armstrong, Erika S ^a   Bower, T G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b GR 41 ^*

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EID: 0032042754     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00016     Document Type: Article

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