Visual discrimination of male and female faces by infant rhesus macaques

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-61

  Paukner, Annika ^a   Huntsberry, Mary E ^b,c   Suomi, Stephen J ^a  

^a NIH Animal Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c SOBRAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Macaca mulatta; Visual preferences

Indexed keywords

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DRIVE; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; NEWBORN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSTINCT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 74249108464     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20412     Document Type: Article

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