Exploring the Williams syndrome face-processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1258-1274

  Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a   Thomas, Michael ^b   Annaz, Dagmara ^b   Humphreys, Kate ^a   Ewing, Sandra ^a   Brace, Nicola ^c   van Duuren, Mike ^d   Pike, Graham ^c   Grice, Sarah ^a   Campbell, Ruth ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Configural; Developmental trajectories; Face processing; Featural; Holistic; Progressive modularisation of function; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLOTS AND CURVES; VISUAL MEMORY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 4544300012     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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