Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study.

ABSTRACT: Facial emotion processing (FEP) is critical to social cognitive ability. Developmentally, FEP rapidly improves in early childhood and continues to be fine-tuned throughout middle childhood and into adolescence. Previous research has suggested that language plays a role in the development of social cognitive skills, including non-verbal emotion recognition tasks. Here we investigated whether language is associated with specific neurophysiological indicators of FEP. One hundred and fourteen children (4-12 years) completed a language assessment and a FEP task including stimuli depicting anger, happiness, fear, and neutrality. EEG was used to record key event related potentials (ERPs; P100, N170, LPP at occipital and parietal sites separately) previously shown to be sensitive to faces and faci

SUBMITTER: Bigelow FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717415 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature