Faces attract infants' attention in complex displays

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 550-562

  Gliga, Teodora ^a   Elsabbagh, Mayada ^a   Andravizou, Athina ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 73449113020     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000903144199     Document Type: Article

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