What Sleeping Babies Hear: A Functional MRI Study of Interparental Conflict and Infants' Emotion Processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 782-789

  Graham, Alice M ^a,b   Fisher, Philip A ^a,b   Pfeifer, Jennifer H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

emotional development; infant development; neuroimaging; psychological stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877326979     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612458803     Document Type: Article

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