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SUBMITTER: Thompson-Booth C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4352331 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thompson-Booth Chloe C Viding Essi E Mayes Linda C LC Rutherford Helena J V HJ Hodsoll Sara S McCrory Eamon J EJ
Developmental science 20130913 1
Infant facial cues play a critical role in eliciting care and nurturance from an adult caregiver. Using an attentional capture paradigm we investigated attentional processing of adult and infant emotional facial expressions in a sample of mothers (n = 29) and non-mothers (n = 37) to determine whether infant faces were associated with greater task interference. Responses to infant target stimuli were slower than adult target stimuli in both groups. This effect was modulated by parental status, su ...[more]