Do surprised faces affect infants’ attention toward novel objects?
Previous research has shown that expressions of fear have an effect on infants’ object processing. This event-related potential study addresses the question whether surprised faces affect infants’ brain responses to objects in a similar way, as both expressions share a crucial perceptual feature, wi...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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December 7, 2011
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Neuroreport
Year: 2011, Jahrgang: 22, Heft: 17, Pages: 906-910 |
| ISSN: | 1473-558X |
| DOI: | 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834cd751 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834cd751 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Fulltext/2011/12070/Do_surprised_faces_affect_infants__attention.11.aspx 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Stefanie Hoehl and Sabina Pauen |
| Zusammenfassung: | Previous research has shown that expressions of fear have an effect on infants’ object processing. This event-related potential study addresses the question whether surprised faces affect infants’ brain responses to objects in a similar way, as both expressions share a crucial perceptual feature, wide-opened eyes. Three-month and 9-month-old infants were presented with surprised and neutral faces gazing toward objects. Following each face looking toward an object, the object was presented again without the face. Three-month-olds directed an increased attention to objects that were previously gaze cued by a surprised compared with neutral face as indicated by an enhanced negative central component. This replicates earlier findings using fearful compared with neutral faces as stimuli. Nine-month-olds did not show different responses to objects in both conditions. This suggests that surprised faces have the same effect as fearful faces on 3-month-olds’, but not on 9-month-olds’ object processing. The findings are discussed in terms of social cognitive and visuoperceptual development. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1473-558X |
| DOI: | 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834cd751 |