Caucasian infants scan own- and other-race faces differently

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Wheeler, Andrea ^a   Anzures, Gizelle ^a   Quinn, Paul C ^b   Pascalis, Olivier ^c   Omrin, Danielle S ^a   Lee, Kang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISION;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79954587410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018621     Document Type: Article

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