Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants’ brain responses to emotional body expressions

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Krol, Kathleen M ^a   Rajhans, Purva ^a   Missana, Manuela ^a   Grossmann, Tobias ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body expressions; Breastfeeding; Emotion; ERP; Infants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84921984845     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00459     Document Type: Article

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