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de Haan, Michelle; Nelson, Charles A. – Child Development, 1997
This study used event-related potentials (ERP) and visual preference technique to assess 6-month olds' ability to recognize their mothers' face. Results of five experiments suggested that infants can recognize their mothers' face, but the neural processes accompanying recognition depend on the difficulty with which mothers can be discriminated…
Descriptors: Experiments, Familiarity, Infants, Learning Processes