Preferential Orienting to Faces in Newborns: A Temporal-Nasal Asymmetry

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1399-1405

  Simion, Francesca ^a   Valenza, Eloisa ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^a   Dalla Barba, Beatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EYE FIXATION; FACE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL ANALYZERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETINA; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032177680     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.5.1399     Document Type: Article

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