The motivational salience of infant faces is similar for men and women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Parsons, Christine E ^a,b   Young, Katherine S ^a,b   Kumari, Nina ^a,b   Stein, Alan ^a   Kringelbach, Morten L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INFANT; NEWBORN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957859630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020632     Document Type: Article

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