Is attentional prioritisation of infant faces unique in humans?: Comparative demonstrations by modified dot-probe task in monkeys

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-36

  Koda, Hiroki ^a   Sato, Anna ^a,b   Kato, Akemi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Society of Promotion of Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baby schema; Cognitive evolution; Primate; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; INNATE BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

BABY SCHEMA; COGNITIVE EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATTENTION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MACACA; REACTION TIME;

AVES; JAPANESE MONKEYS; MACACA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84879259452     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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