Looking to the eyes influences the processing of emotion on face-sensitive event-related potentials in 7-month-old infants

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1154-1163

  Vanderwert, Ross E ^a,b   Westerlund, Alissa ^a   Montoya, Lina ^a   Mccormick, Sarah A ^a   Miguel, Helga O ^c   Nelson, Charles A ^a,b,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Event related potentials; Eye tracking; Face processing; Infant development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE; EYE TRACKING; FACE SENSITIVE EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84941260895     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22204     Document Type: Article

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