The Development and Neural Bases of Face Recognition

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 3-18

  Nelson, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Development; Face; Object; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035589455     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.239     Document Type: Article

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