Adults' awareness of faces follows newborns' looking preferences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Stein, Timo ^a,b   Peelen, Marius V ^c   Sterzer, Philipp ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BINOCULAR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EYE FIXATION; FACE PREFERENCE; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; FACE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 83755174315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029361     Document Type: Article

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