Age-related differences in neural correlates of face recognition during the toddler and preschool years

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 148-159

  Carver, Leslie J ^a   Dawson, Geraldine ^b   Panagiotides, Heracles ^b   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b   McPartland, James ^b   Gray, Jonathan ^b   Munson, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Eventrelated potentials; Face recognition; Social behavior; Stranger anxiety

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037284452     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10078     Document Type: Article

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