Gaze-cueing effect depends on facial expression of emotion in 9- to 12-month-old infants.

ABSTRACT: Efficient processing of gaze direction and facial expression of emotion is crucial for early social and emotional development. Toward the end of the first year of life infants begin to pay more attention to negative expressions, but it remains unclear to what extent emotion expression is processed jointly with gaze direction at this age. This study sought to establish the interactions of gaze direction and emotion expression in visual orienting in 9- to 12-month-olds. In particular, we tested whether these interactions can be explained by the negativity bias hypothesis and the shared signal hypothesis. We measured saccadic latencies in response to peripheral targets in a gaze-cueing paradigm with happy, angry, and fearful female faces. In the Pilot Experiment three gaze directions were use

SUBMITTER: Niedzwiecka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322542 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature