Newborn preference for a new face vs. a previously seen communicative or motionless face

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-433

  Cecchini, Marco ^a   Baroni, Eleonora ^a   Di Vito, Cinzia ^a   Piccolo, Federica ^a   Lai, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Face recognition; Newborns; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNICATION; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960034711     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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