Perception of Multisensory Gender Coherence in 6- and 9-Month-Old Infants

Infancy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 661-674

  Hillairet de Boisferon, Anne ^a   Dupierrix, Eve ^a   Quinn, Paul C ^b   Lœvenbruck, Hélène ^a   Lewkowicz, David J ^c   Lee, Kang ^d   Pascalis, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84943584965     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12088     Document Type: Article

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