Temperament, tympanum, and temperature: Four provisional studies of the biobehavioral correlates of tympanic membrane temperature asymmetries

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 718-733

  Boyce, W Thomas ^a   Essex, Marilyn J ^b   Alkon, Abbey ^c   Smider, Nancy A ^b   Pickrell, Tyler ^d   Kagan, Jerome ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARDRUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEMPERAMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPERAMENT; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0036579618     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00434     Document Type: Review

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