Development of perceptual expertise in emotion recognition

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 242-247

  Pollak, Seth D ^a   Messner, Michael ^a   Kistler, Doris J ^b   Cohn, Jeffrey F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Developmental plasticity; Effects of experience; Emotion perception; Emotion recognition; Face processing; Learning; Perceptual expertise

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ANGER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58249130281     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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