The emergence and stability of the attentional bias to fearful faces in infancy

Infancy

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 905-926

  Peltola, Mikko J ^a,b   Hietanen, Jari K ^a   Forssman, Linda ^a   Leppänen, Jukka M ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84885044593     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12013     Document Type: Article

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