Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1653, 2008, Pages 2803-2811

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Lloyd Fox, Sarah ^a   Blasi, Anna ^b   Deligianni, Fani ^a   Elwell, Clare ^b   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Eye gaze; Face; Infancy; Neuroimaging; Social brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NEAR INFRARED; PERCEPTION; SPECIALIZATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 57349177555     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0986     Document Type: Article

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