Perception of illusory shift of gaze direction by infants

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 422-428

  Nakato, Emi ^a   Otsuka, Yumiko ^b,c   Konuma, Hiroko ^d   Kanazawa, So ^b   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^d,e   Tomonaga, Masaki ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Face; Gaze; Illusion; Infants; Perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70350354567     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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