The effects of adults' affective expression and direction of visual gaze on 12-month-olds' visual preferences for an object following a 5-minute, 1-day, or 1-month delay

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-85

  Flom, Ross ^a   Johnson, Sarah ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; THEORY OF MIND;

AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 79751505748     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: 2044835X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151010X512088     Document Type: Article

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