Fearful Faces But Not Fearful Eyes Alone Delay Attention Disengagement in 7-Month-Old Infants

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 560-565

  Peltola, Mikko J ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a   Vogel Farley, Vanessa K ^b   Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Nelson, Charles A ^b,c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; emotion; eye tracking; facial expression; infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 69049091872     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015806     Document Type: Article

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