Infants attend to second-order relational properties of faces

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 769-777

  Thompson, L A ^a   Madrid, V ^a   Westbrook, S ^a   Johnston, V ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035749428     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196216     Document Type: Article

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