Processing of Facial and Non-facial Visual Stimuli in 2-5-year-Old Children

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 253-269

  Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytic and holistic processing; Early childhood; Face perception; Object perception; Perception; Perceptual development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142055290     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.257     Document Type: Article

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