Attentional capture by social stimuli in young infants

We investigated the possibility that a range of social stimuli capture the attention of 6-month-old infants when in competition with other non-face objects. Infants viewed a series of six-item arrays in which one target item was a face, body part, or animal as their eye movements were recorded. St...

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Main Authors: Maxie eGluckman, Scott P Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00527/full