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With eyes or noses? How young children use sensory cues to make social decisions

December 19, 2016 by

Children begin using olfactory information to help guide their responses to emotionally-expressive faces at about age five, research shows. These findings advance understanding of how children integrate different types of sensory information to direct their social behavior.

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