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An Eye for Detail: An Event-Related Potential Study of the Rapid Processing of Fearful Facial Expressions in Children
- Source :
- Child Development. 81:1304-1319
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2010.
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Abstract
- There is converging evidence for the presence of a fast subcortical face-processing route that operates on global face characteristics in the mature brain. Until now, little has been known about the development of such a route, which is surprising given suggestions that this fast subcortical face-processing route might be affected in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. To address this, early visual event-related potentials to pictures of fearful and neutral faces containing detailed or global information in 3- to 4-year-old (n = 20), 5- to 6-year-old (n = 25), and 7- to 8-year-old (n = 25) children were compared. In children, emotional processing was driven by detailed information. Developmental effects are discussed in terms of maturation of the fast subcortical face-processing route as well as an increase in experience with facial expressions with age.
- Subjects :
- Facial expression
Information processing
Eye movement
Cognition
medicine.disease
Education
Developmental psychology
Face perception
Event-related potential
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Autism
Emotional expression
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00093920
- Volume :
- 81
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........de577eff6195ac7144da7753c5f219e2