Babies and brains: Habituation in infant cognition and functional neuroimaging

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2008, Pages

  Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a   Chun, Marvin M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; FMRI adaptation; Implicit memory; Novelty preferences; Priming; Repetition attenuation; Repetition enhancement; Repetition suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251621855     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.016.2008     Document Type: Article

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