Event-related potentials elicited in mothers by their own and unfamiliar infants' faces with crying and smiling expression

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1297-1307

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cry; Infant; Mother; N170; P300

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CRYING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CRYING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMILING;

EID: 84861223284     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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