Infant preference for individual women's faces extends to girl prototype faces

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-360

  Quinn, Paul C ^a   Conforto, Amanda ^a   Lee, Kang ^b   O'Toole, Alice J ^c   Pascalis, Olivier ^d   Slater, Alan M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face perception; Gender; Perceptual development; Prototype; Visual preference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAREGIVER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD REARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIBLINGS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953021248     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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