Recognizing the face of Johnny, Suzy, and me: Insensitivity to the spacing among features at 4 years of age

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 234-243

  Mondloch, Catherine J ^a   Leis, Anishka ^b,c   Maurer, Daphne ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SELF CONCEPT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644948666     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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