Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline
1991/08/01 by Mark H. Johnson, Suzanne Dziurawiec, Hadyn Ellis +2 · 1 voice · 1,481 citations
Health Professions · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Blank #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Face Recognition and Perception #Infant Health and Development #Psychology #Schematic #Stimulus (psychology) #Tracking (education)
paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(91)90045-6
published in Cognition 40(1-2), 1-19 (Elsevier BV)
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