Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-47

  Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Nelson, Charles A ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57749187414     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2554     Document Type: Review

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