Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Balas, Benjamin J ^a,b   Nelson III, Charles A ^a,b   Westerlund, Alissa ^a   Vogel Farley, Vanessa ^a   Riggins, Tracy ^c   Kuefner, Dana ^d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Erps; Face recognition; Familiarity; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE PROFILE; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NERVE STIMULATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953018197     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.001.2010     Document Type: Article

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