Facing threat: Infants' and adults' visual scanning of faces with neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional expressions

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-205

  Hunnius, Sabine ^a   de Wit, Tessa C J ^b   Vrins, Sven ^a   von Hofsten, Claes ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Emotional expression; Facial expression; Infants; Threat; Visual scanning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FETUS; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANGER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79551613531     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298861003771189     Document Type: Article

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