Infants' differential processing of female and male faces

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 59-62

  Ramsey Rennels, Jennifer L ^a   Langlois, Judith H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Face processing; Face recognition; Gender categorization; Information processing; Knowledge structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646720679     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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