Newborns' preference for face-relevant stimuli: Effects of contrast polarity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 47, 2005, Pages 17245-17250

  Farroni, Teresa ^a,b   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Menon, Enrica ^b   Zulian, Luisa ^b   Faraguna, Dino ^c   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale di Monfalcone   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye contact; Face processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FACE; FACE PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 28044449107     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502205102     Document Type: Article

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