Newborns' face recognition is based on spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles per degree

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 444-454

  de Heering, Adélaïde ^a   Turati, Chiara ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a   Bulf, Hermann ^b   Goffaux, Valérie ^a   Simion, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Development; Face processing; Newborns; Spatial frequencies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 36849030721     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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