Experience-dependent neural specialization during infancy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1857-1861

  Scott, Lisa S ^a   Monesson, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Face perception; Perceptual narrowing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77952548127     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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