Influence of Eye Gaze on Spoken Word Processing: An ERP Study With Infants

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 842-853

  Parise, Eugenio ^a   Handl, Andrea ^b   Palumbo, Letizia ^c   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955623584     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01573.x     Document Type: Article

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