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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kit K. Elam, Joshua M. Carlson, Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Karen S. Reinke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-10-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800415