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Facing threat: Infants' and adults' visual scanning of faces with neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional expressions

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Pages 193-205 | Received 08 Sep 2009, Accepted 02 Mar 2010, Published online: 04 Oct 2010

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