Of hissing snakes and angry voices: human infants are differentially responsive to evolutionary fear-relevant sounds

Adult humans demonstrate differential processing of stimuli that were recurrent threats to safety and survival throughout evolutionary history. Recent studies suggest that differential processing of evolutionarily ancient threats occurs in human infants, leading to the proposal of an inborn mechanis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erlich, N., Lipp, Ottmar, Slaughter, V.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10816