Development of infants' attention to faces during the first year

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 160-170

  Frank, Michael C ^a   Vul, Edward ^a   Johnson, Scott P ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Face perception; Infancy; Social development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 58249130675     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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