Maternal personality and infants' neural and visual responsivity to facial expressions of emotion

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1209-1218

  de Haan, Michelle ^a   Belsky, Jay ^b   Reid, Vincent ^c   Volein, Agnes ^c   Johnson, Mark H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Event related potentials; Individual differences; Infancy; Laterality; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; NERVE POTENTIAL; PERSONALITY; TEMPERAMENT; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4544323185     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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