Infant holding biases and their relations to hemispheric specializations for perceiving facial emotions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 564-571

  Vauclair, Jacques ^a   Donnot, Julien ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Brain lateralization; Cradling; Emotion processing; Hand preferences; Holding postures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 13844275893     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.07.005     Document Type: Article

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