TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies
AU - Oberst, Leah
AU - Jubran, Rachel
AU - White, Hannah
AU - Heck, Alison
AU - Bhatt, Ramesh S.
AU - Chroust, Alyson
N1 - Research Article Corresponding author University of Kentucky Correspondence should be sent to Ramesh S. Bhatt, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044. E-mail: [email protected] Search for more papers by this author Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily integrate facial and bodily emotions. However, not much is known about the developmental origin of this capacity. Using a familiarization paired-comparison procedure, 6.5-month-olds in the current experiments were familiarized to happy, angry, or sad emotions in faces or bodies and tested with the opposite image type portraying the familiar emotion paired with a novel emotion. Infants looked longer at the familiar emotion across faces and bodies (except when familiarized to angry images and tested on the happy/angry contrast). This matching occurred not only for emotions from different affective categories (happy, angry) but also within the negative affective category (angry, sad). Thus, 6.5-month-olds, like adults, integrate emotions from bodies and faces in a fairly sophisticated manner, suggesting rapid development of emotion processing early in life.
AB - Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily integrate facial and bodily emotions. However, not much is known about the developmental origin of this capacity. Using a familiarization paired-comparison procedure, 6.5-month-olds in the current experiments were familiarized to happy, angry, or sad emotions in faces or bodies and tested with the opposite image type portraying the familiar emotion paired with a novel emotion. Infants looked longer at the familiar emotion across faces and bodies (except when familiarized to angry images and tested on the happy/angry contrast). This matching occurred not only for emotions from different affective categories (happy, angry) but also within the negative affective category (angry, sad). Thus, 6.5-month-olds, like adults, integrate emotions from bodies and faces in a fairly sophisticated manner, suggesting rapid development of emotion processing early in life.
KW - infancy
KW - integrated emotion processing
UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12177
U2 - 10.1111/infa.12177
DO - 10.1111/infa.12177
M3 - Article
VL - 22
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
ER -