Sweet Puppies and Cute Babies: Perceptual Adaptation to Babyfacedness Transfers across Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Golle, Jessika ^a   Lisibach, Stephanie ^a   Mast, Fred W ^a   Lobmaier, Janek S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PUPPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOGS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874901771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058248     Document Type: Article

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