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The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants: An event-related potential study

Andrea Kobiella Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Tobias Grossmann Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
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Vincent M. Reid Durham University, Durham, UK
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Tricia Striano University of Leipzig and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 134-146 | Received 27 Oct 2006, Published online: 14 Dec 2007

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