Infants' neural processing of positive emotion and eye gaze

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-39

  Hoehl, Stefanie ^a   Striano, Tricia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional expressions; Erps; Infants; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77950488026     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910903073232     Document Type: Article

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