Do animals and furniture items elicit different brain responses in human infants?

Brain and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 863-871

  Jeschonek, Susanna ^a   Marinovic, Vesna ^a   Hoehl, Stefanie ^a   Elsner, Birgit ^b   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animate inanmiate distinction; Categorization; Category priming; ERP; Event related potentials; Infants; Nc; PSW

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FURNITURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77957891916     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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