Cross-cultural applicability of eye-tracking in assessing attention to emotional faces in preschool-aged children.

ABSTRACT: Humans show an attention bias toward emotional versus neutral information, which is considered an adaptive pattern of information processing. Deviations from this pattern have been observed in children with socially withdrawn behaviors, with most research being conducted in controlled settings among children from urban areas. The goal of the current study was to examine the cross-cultural applicability of two eye-tracking-based measures in assessing attention biases and their relations to children's symptoms of socially withdrawn behaviors in two independent and diverse samples of preschool children. The cross-cultural comparison was conducted between the Navajo Birth Cohort study (NBCS), an indigenous cohort with relatively low socioeconomic status (SES), and the Illinois Kids Development

SUBMITTER: Nozadi SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014488 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature