Direct gaze modulates face recognition in young infants

Cognition

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 396-404

  Farroni, Teresa ^a,b   Massaccesi, Stefano ^a   Menon, Enrica ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye gaze; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 33846212308     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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