An inner face advantage in children's recognition of familiar peers

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-136

  Ge, Liezhong ^a   Anzures, Gizelle ^b   Wang, Zhe ^c   Kelly, David J ^d   Pascalis, Olivier ^e   Quinn, Paul C ^f   Slater, Alan M ^g   Yang, Zhiliang ^c   Lee, Kang ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development of face processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 51749088119     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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