Conceptual knowledge increasingly supports emotion understanding as perceptual contribution declines with age.

ABSTRACT: Human's abilities to reason about what others may be feeling undergo prolonged development throughout childhood and adolescence, yet the mechanisms driving the emergence of these skills remain elusive. This set of studies, conducted within the same sample of 5- to 10-year-old children, examines how spontaneous perceptual discrimination of facial configurations and activation of conceptual knowledge about emotions become integrated across development. Perceptual discrimination is measured using an EEG frequency tagging paradigm (Study 1). Conceptual knowledge is evaluated with a conceptual similarity rating task (Study 2). Two behavioral tasks (sorting and matching) are employed to assess emotion understanding (Study 3). Representational similarity analysis assesses the predictive effects o

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12289978 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature