Visual attention to global and local stimulus properties in 6-month-old infants: Individual differences and event-related potentials

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1392-1406

  Guy, Maggie W ^a   Reynolds, Greg D ^a   Zhang, Dantong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MENTAL FUNCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MENTAL PROCESSES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880365785     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12053     Document Type: Article

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