Social perception in the infant brain: Gamma oscillatory activity in response to eye gaze

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 284-291

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Farroni, Teresa ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Eye gaze; Gamma oscillations; Infancy; Social perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36549004171     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm025     Document Type: Article

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