Cradling side preference is associated with lateralized processing of baby facial expressions in females

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-72

  Huggenberger, Harriet J ^a   Suter, Susanne E ^a   Reijnen, Ester ^a   Schachinger, Hartmut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baby face expression; Emotional processes; Lateralization; Left cradling; Response bias; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VOLUNTEER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64049087386     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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