Unconscious discrimination of social cues from eye whites in infants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 16208-16213

  Jessen, Sarah ^a   Grossmann, Tobias ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Human eye; Infancy; Social perception; Subliminal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERCEPTION; SCLERA; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ADULT; EYE; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84909592565     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411333111     Document Type: Article

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