Facial emotion and identity processing development in 5to 15-year-old children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2011, Pages

  Johnston, Patrick J ^a   Kaufman, Jordy ^b   Bajic, Julie ^c   Sercombe, Alicia ^c   Michie, Patricia T ^c   Karayanidis, Frini ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Face processing; Facial emotion; Facial identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864941427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00026     Document Type: Article

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