Emotional face expressions recognition in childhood: developmental markers, age and sex effect.
Children
Development
Emotion
Face recognition
Journal
Cognitive processing
ISSN: 1612-4790
Titre abrégé: Cogn Process
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101177984
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
05
07
2021
accepted:
10
03
2022
pubmed:
2
4
2022
medline:
22
7
2022
entrez:
1
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recognizing emotional face expressions in others is a valuable non-verbal communication and particularly relevant throughout childhood given that children's language skills are not yet fully developed, but the first interactions with peers have just started. This study aims to investigate developmental markers of emotional facial expression in children and the effect of age and sex on it. A total of 90 children split into three age groups: 6-7 years old (n = 30); 8-9 years old (n = 30); 10-11 years old (n = 30) took part in the study. Participants were exposed to 38 photos in two exposure times (500 ms and 1000 ms) of children expressing happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear and surprise on three intensities, plus images of neutral faces. Happiness was the easiest expression to be recognized, followed by disgust and surprise. As expected, 10-11-year-old group showed the highest accuracy means, whereas 6-7-year-old group had the lowest means of accuracy. Data support the non-existence of female advantage.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35362838
doi: 10.1007/s10339-022-01086-1
pii: 10.1007/s10339-022-01086-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
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© 2022. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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