Infant Discrimination of Facial Expressions

Young-Browne, Gail; Rosenfeld, Howard Μ.; Horowitz, Frances Degen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1977.tb01197.x

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“…Even toddlers gain important information from the facial expressions of others (La Barbera, Izard, Vietze, & Parisi, 1976;Sorce, Emde, Campos, & Klinnert, 1985;Young-Browne, Rosenfeld, & Horowitz, 1977). Adults across various cultures recognize six basic facial expressions of emotion: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise (Ekman, Levenson, & Friesen, 1983;Ekman, Sorenson, & Friesen, 1969;Izard, 1971), a finding that is reliable across numerous procedural variations (Boucher & Carlson, 1980;Izard, 1971).…”

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Recognition of facial expressions in obsessive–compulsive disorder

Corcoran¹,

Woody²,

Tolin³

2008

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Sprengelmeyer et al. [Sprengelmeyer, R., Young, A. W., Pundt, I., Sprengelmeyer, A., Calder, A. J., Berrios, G., et al. (1997). Disgust implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 264, 1767-1773] found that patients with OCD showed severely impaired recognition of facial expressions of disgust. This result has potential to provide a unique window into the psychopathology of OCD, but several published attempts to replicate this finding have failed. The current study compared OCD patients to normal controls and panic disorder patients on ability to recognize facial expressions of negative emotions. Overall, the OCD patients were impaired in their ability to recognize disgust expressions, but only 33% of patients showed this deficit. These deficits were related to OCD symptom severity and general functioning, factors that may account for the inconsistent findings observed in different laboratories.

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Recognition of facial expressions in obsessive–compulsive disorder

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Woody²,

Tolin³

2008

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“…Results indicate that at approximately 3 months of age, infants can discriminate among facial expressions of happiness, anger, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust (e.g., Barrera & Maurer, 1981;Kuchuck, Vibbert, & Bornstein, 1986;Nelson, 1987;Serrano, Iglesias, & Loeches, 1992;Young-Browne, Rosenfeld, & Horowitz, 1977). By 5 months of age, infants can discriminate among different vocal emotional expressions, but only when they are concurrently presented with a facial expression (A. J.…”

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The Role of Person Familiarity in Young Infants' Perception of Emotional Expressions

2001

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This research investigated the role of person familiarity in the ability of 3.5-month-old infants to recognize emotional expressions. Infants (N = 72) were presented simultaneously with two filmed facial expressions, happy and sad, accompanied by a single vocal expression that was concordant with one of the two facial expressions. Infants' looking preferences and facial expressions were coded. Results indicated that when the emotional expressions were portrayed by each infant's own mother, infants looked significantly longer toward the facial expressions that were accompanied by affectively matching vocal expressions. Infants who were presented with emotional expressions of an unfamiliar woman did not. Even when a brief delay was inserted between the presentation of facial and vocal expressions, infants who were presented with emotional expressions of their own mothers looked longer at the facial expression that was sound specified, indicating that some factor other than temporal synchrony guided their looking preferences. When infants viewed the films of their own mothers, they were more interactive and expressed more positive and less negative affect. Moreover, infants produced a greater number of full and bright smiles when the sound-specified emotion was "happy," and particularly when they viewed the happy expressions of their own mothers. The average duration of negative affect was significantly longer for infants who observed the unfamiliar woman than for those who observed their own mothers. These results show that when more contextual information-that is, person familiarity-was available, infants as young as 3.5 months of age recognized happy and sad expressions. These findings suggest that in the early stages of development, infants are sensitive to contextual information that potentially facilitates some of the meaning of others' emotional expressions.

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“…Common to nearly all emotion perception research is the use of unfamiliar trained models (e.g., Caron et al, 1988;LaBarbera et al, 1976;Serrano et al, 1992;Walker, 1982;Young-Browne, Rosenfeld, & Horowitz, 1977). Nonetheless, given that social interactions occur primarily between infants and their caregivers, investigation of infants' perception of their own mothers' and fathers' expressions may be the consummate means for investigating the development of infants' understanding of emotion.…”

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“…Even for adults, specific emotion pairs, such as surprise and fear, may be difficult to discriminate because these expressions share many featural characteristics such as an open mouth and raised brows (Ekman, Sorenson, & Friesen, 1969). For infants, happy expressions seem to be discriminated from other expressions most easily (e.g., Field et al, 1983;LaBarbera et al, 1976;Young-Browne et al, 1977). Other expressions seem to be discriminated somewhat later in development (e.g., Montague & Walker-Andrews, 2001;Serrano et al, 1992), perhaps because of featural similarities in these expressions, as suggested by the description of fear and surprise above.…”

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Mothers, Fathers, and Infants: The Role of Person Familiarity and Parental Involvement in Infants’ Perception of Emotion Expressions

2002

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The roles of person familiarity and parental involvement in 3.5-month-old infants' sensitivity to the dynamic emotion expressions of others were explored. In the home, parental facial/vocal expressions (happy, sad, angry) were videotaped, and measures of parent-infant involvement were obtained. In the laboratory, 32 infants alternately viewed their mother and father and an unfamiliar woman and man portraying expressions in an intermodal preference task. Infants looked differentially at mothers' expressions but not at those of fathers or unfamiliar adults. Examination of parent-child involvement patterns revealed significant relations with infants' sensitivity to expressions. Results suggest that person familiarity may facilitate infants' developing understanding of others' emotion expressions, and that individual differences in family dynamics may be relevant to infants' patterns of responding.

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Infant Discrimination of Facial Expressions

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

Recognition of facial expressions in obsessive–compulsive disorder

Recognition of facial expressions in obsessive–compulsive disorder

The Role of Person Familiarity in Young Infants' Perception of Emotional Expressions

Mothers, Fathers, and Infants: The Role of Person Familiarity and Parental Involvement in Infants’ Perception of Emotion Expressions

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