Infants' attention is biased by emotional expressions and eye gaze direction

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 579-582

  Hoehl, Stefanie ^a   Palumbo, Letizia ^c   Heinisch, Christine ^b   Striano, Tricia ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional expressions; Event related potentials; Eye gaze; Infants; Threat detection

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT;

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 41849122246     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f97897     Document Type: Article

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