Brain responses reveal young infants' sensitivity to when a social partner follows their gaze

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-161

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a   Lloyd Fox, Sarah ^b   Johnson, Mark H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fNIRS; Gaze; Infancy; Joint attention; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84887297064     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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