Emotional Faces Capture Spatial Attention in 5-Year-Old Children
Emotional facial expressions are important social cues that convey salient affective information. Infants, younger children, and adults all appear to orient spatial attention to emotional faces with a particularly strong bias to fearful faces. Yet in young children it is unclear whether or not both...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-10-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800415 |