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Original Articles

Investigating the impact of parental status and depression symptoms on the early perceptual coding of infant faces: An event-related potential study

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Pages 525-536 | Received 01 Jan 2012, Accepted 28 Feb 2012, Published online: 21 Mar 2012

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