Attentional capture by social stimuli in young infants

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Gluckman, Maxie ^a   Johnson, Scott P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Face perception; Infant development; Saliency map; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885363529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00527     Document Type: Article

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