Preschoolers recognition of emotional expressions: Relationships with other neurocognitive capacities

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 281-302

  Rosenqvist, Johanna ^a   Lahti Nuuttila, Pekka ^a   Laasonen, Marja ^a,b   Korkman, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Emotion matching; Facial expression recognition; Neurocognitive

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; EMOTION MATCHING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROCOGNITIVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; THEORY OF MIND;

CHILDREN; DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION MATCHING; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; NEUROCOGNITIVE;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84899620129     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2013.778235     Document Type: Article

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