Direct eye contact infuences the neural processing of objects in 5-month-old infants

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-150

  Parise, Eugenio ^a   Reid, Vincent M ^b   Stets, Manuela ^c   Striano, Tricia ^a,c  

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

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 50249151920     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701865458     Document Type: Article

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