The development of neural responses to emotional faces: A review of evidence from event-related potentials during early and middle childhood.

ABSTRACT: Facial emotion processing (FEP) develops throughout childhood and provides crucial social information necessary for the interpretation and prediction of others' behaviour. This systematic review, which includes a meta-regression component, sought to explore the development of FEP event-related potentials (P100, N170, and late positive potential [LPP]) in children aged three to twelve years. Thirty-four studies, representing data from 1511 children, were included in the review. The combination of meta-regression and systematic review suggest that P100 amplitude decreases with increasing age in response to emotional facial stimuli. P100 latency may show a gradual decrease around the age of ten. In terms of the N170, it is suggested that amplitude follows a non-linear trend with age, and late

SUBMITTER: Bigelow FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339225 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature