The development of specific emotion comprehension components in 1285 preschool children.

ABSTRACT: The goal was to examine the development of specific components of emotion comprehension in 1285 preschool children aged 3 to 5 years. Three tasks were used: context-free facial recognition of four primary (and neutral) emotions, and comprehension of external causes (i.e., pointing to which emotion a character feels in several situations, and labelling each of them). Main results showed that emotion comprehension improves in 3-4-5-year-olds. However, some components seemed to improve faster regardless of age. Context-free facial recognition of emotions was better mastered compared to the ability to identify and label (respectively non-verbal and verbal causes comprehension tasks) an emotion after presenting the external cause (visually/verbally) of emotion. Labelling facial expressions rema

SUBMITTER: Richard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11903853 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature