Development of Specialized Face Perception in Infants: An Information-Processing Perspective

Infant Perception and Cognition: Recent Advances, Emerging Theories, and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cashon, Cara H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohen; Discrimination; Face perception; Face recognition; Infants; Information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195366709.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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