An event-related potential study of the processing of affective facial expressions in young children who experienced maltreatment during the first year of life

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 641-677

  Cicchetti, Dante ^a,b   Curtis, W John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

AFFECT; BRAIN; CHILD ABUSE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645944356     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579405050315     Document Type: Article

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