Emergence of enhanced attention to fearful faces between 5 and 7 months of age

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-142

  Peltola, Mikko J ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Mäki, Silja ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Facial expression; Infants; Looking time

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MENTAL FUNCTION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 66749144936     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn046     Document Type: Article

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