Differential attentional responding in caesarean versus vaginally delivered infants

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2529-2539

  Adler, Scott A ^a,b   Wong Kee You, Audrey M B ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Bottom up; Caesarean section; Development; Eye movements; Infants; Top down; Vaginal birth

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ATTENTION; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84947128921     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0969-3     Document Type: Article

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