Infants' emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions: Insights from asymmetrical frontal brain activity

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 151-160

  Missana, Manuela ^a   Grossmann, Tobias ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body expressions; Development; Emotion; Frontal cortex; Infants

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEREBRUM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84925857975     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038469     Document Type: Article

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