Limitations in 4-year-old children's sensitivity to the spacing among facial features

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1513-1523

  Mondloch, Catherine J ^a   Thomson, Kendra ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51949100601     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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