Preschoolers' Sensitivity to Negative and Positive Emotional Facial Expressions: An ERP Study.

ABSTRACT: The study examined processing differences for facial expressions (happy, angry, or neutral) and their repetition with early (P1, N170) and late (P3) event-related potentials (ERPs) in young children (N = 33). EEG was recorded while children observed sequentially presented pairs of facial expressions, which were either the same (repeated trials) or differed in their emotion (novel trials). We also correlated ERP amplitude differences with parental and child measures of socio-emotional competence (emotion recognition, empathy). P1 amplitudes were increased for angry and happy as compared to neutral expressions. We also detected larger P3 amplitudes for angry expressions as compared to happy or neutral expressions. Repetition effects were evident at early and late processing stages mar

SUBMITTER: Naumann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9197498 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature