The effects of early experience on face recognition: An event-related potential study of institutionalized children in romania

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1039-1056

  Moulson, Margaret C ^a   Westerlund, Alissa ^b   Fox, Nathan A ^c   Zeanah, Charles H ^d   Nelson, Charles A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROMANIA; VISION;

BLINKING; CHILD, INSTITUTIONALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROMANIA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650572987     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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