Infants' experience-dependent processing of male and female faces: Insights from eye tracking and event-related potentials

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-152

  Righi, Giulia ^a,b,f   Westerlund, Alissa ^b   Congdon, Eliza L ^c   Troller Renfree, Sonya ^b   Nelson, Charles A ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Experience; Eye tracking; Face processing; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; EXPERIENCE; EYE-TRACKING; FACE PROCESSING; INFANTS;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84897111376     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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