Face Experience and the Attentional Bias for Fearful Expressions in 6- and 9-Month-Old Infants

Infants demonstrate an attentional bias toward fearful facial expressions that emerges in the first year of life. The current study investigated whether this attentional bias is influenced by experience with particular face types. Six-month-old (n = 33) and 9-month-old (n = 31) Caucasian infants...

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Main Authors: Kristina Safar, Andrea Kusec, Margaret C. Moulson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01575/full