Visual exploration strategies and the development of infants' facial emotion discrimination

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Amso, Dima ^a   Fitzgerald, Megan ^b   Davidow, Juliet ^c   Gilhooly, Tara ^d   Tottenham, Nim ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Medical Center   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion expression; Face perception; Infancy; Visual exploration

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555199301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00180     Document Type: Article

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