12-Month-old infants allocate increased neural resources to stimuli associated with negative adult emotion

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-69

  Carver, Leslie J ^a   Vaccaro, Brenda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain activity situations; Emotion; Negative adult emotion; Neural resources; Social referencing

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33846113436     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.1.54     Document Type: Article

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