Newborns' recognition of changing and unchanging aspects of schematic faces

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 239-261

  Turati, Chiara ^a   Simion, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Newborns; Perceptual invariance; Recognition; Schematic faces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036886405     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00148-0     Document Type: Article

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