The development of face perception in infancy: Intersensory interference and unimodal visual facilitation

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1919-1930

  Bahrick, Lorraine E ^a   Lickliter, Robert ^a   Castellanos, Irina ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiovisual event perception; Face discrimination; Face voice processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84884955979     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031238     Document Type: Article

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