How infant perceive faces;Percevoir un visage dans la petite enfance

Evolution Psychiatrique

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-54

  de Schonen, Scania ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral development; Face; Information; Newborn; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FACIES; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 67649583471     PISSN: 00143855     EISSN: 17696674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evopsy.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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