Infants Experience Perceptual Narrowing for Nonprimate Faces

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-328

  Simpson, Elizabeth A ^a   Varga, Krisztina ^a   Frick, Janet E ^a   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; SHEEP; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

EID: 79953298769     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00052.x     Document Type: Article

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