How do infants perceive scrambled face?: A near-infrared spectroscopic study

Brain Research

Volumn 1308, Issue , 2010, Pages 137-146

  Honda, Yukiko ^a   Nakato, Emi ^b   Otsuka, Yumiko ^c,d   Kanazawa, So ^e   Kojima, Shozo ^f   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^b,g   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a,h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^e JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^h GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental change; Face perception; Infant; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Scrambled face

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; NERVE NET; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70849099646     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.046     Document Type: Article

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