Peekaboo: A new look at infants' perception of emotion expressions.

Montague, Diane P. F.; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S.

doi:10.1037//0012-1649.37.6.826

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“…In most cases, if infants can detect the congruence between the facial and vocal cues to emotion, they look longer at the congruent facial expression. Walker-Andrews and her colleagues have demonstrated that infants as young as 3 months show the ability to match congruent facial and vocal expressions for sad and happy when stimuli are caregiver faces (Kahana-Kalman & Walker-Andrews, 2001), and this ability emerges for unfamiliar faces by 4 to 7 months of age (Kestenbaum & Nelson, 1990;Montague & Walker-Andrews, 2001;Walker-Andrews, 1982).…”

Section: Differentiating Emotions In Infancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Infants’ ability to recognize and respond to negative emotional expressions

Vyas

2023

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<p>Perceiving others’ emotional facial and vocal expressions is nearly effortless for adults, and most discrete emotions are universally recognizable. Although the ability to accurately detect and distinguish emotions is present in adulthood, it is still unclear how this ability develops early in life. Both behavioral and neurocognitive studies suggest that in the first year of life, infants can differentiate discrete emotions; however, this is only evidenced by differential processing of emotions that belong to contrasting valence categories (positive vs. negative); it remains unclear whether infants demonstrate differential processing of emotions that belong to the same valence category (i.e., negative emotions). I considered the limitations of classic paradigms used to investigate emotion processing in infancy and the gaps left in the literature as a consequence, and conducted two experiments that explore new avenues to measure infants’ ability to differentiate negative emotions. These studies investigated how infants integrate sensory information and differentially respond to facial expressions to understand how infants distinguish between negative emotions. </p>

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Section: Differentiating Emotions In Infancymentioning

confidence: 99%