Cues for early social skills: Direct gaze modulates newborns' recognition of talking faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Guellai, Bahia ^a   Streri, Arlette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ASSOCIATION; EYE FIXATION; FACE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; TIME;

CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954467344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018610     Document Type: Article

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