The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants
The present study examined whether infants’ crawling experience is related to their sensitivity to fearful emotional expressions. Twenty-nine 9- to 10-month-old infants were tested in a preferential looking task, in which they were presented with different pairs of animated faces on a screen display...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029591/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35448010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479 |
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author | Gehb, Gloria Vesker, Michael Jovanovic, Bianca Bahn, Daniela Kauschke, Christina Schwarzer, Gudrun |
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description | The present study examined whether infants’ crawling experience is related to their sensitivity to fearful emotional expressions. Twenty-nine 9- to 10-month-old infants were tested in a preferential looking task, in which they were presented with different pairs of animated faces on a screen displaying a 100% happy facial expression and morphed facial expressions containing varying degrees of fear and happiness. Regardless of their crawling experiences, all infants looked longer at more fearful faces. Additionally, infants with at least 6 weeks of crawling experience needed lower levels of fearfulness in the morphs in order to detect a change from a happy to a fearful face compared to those with less crawling experience. Thus, the crawling experience seems to increase infants’ sensitivity to fearfulness in faces. |
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spelling | pubmed-90295912022-04-23 The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants Gehb, Gloria Vesker, Michael Jovanovic, Bianca Bahn, Daniela Kauschke, Christina Schwarzer, Gudrun Brain Sci Article The present study examined whether infants’ crawling experience is related to their sensitivity to fearful emotional expressions. Twenty-nine 9- to 10-month-old infants were tested in a preferential looking task, in which they were presented with different pairs of animated faces on a screen displaying a 100% happy facial expression and morphed facial expressions containing varying degrees of fear and happiness. Regardless of their crawling experiences, all infants looked longer at more fearful faces. Additionally, infants with at least 6 weeks of crawling experience needed lower levels of fearfulness in the morphs in order to detect a change from a happy to a fearful face compared to those with less crawling experience. Thus, the crawling experience seems to increase infants’ sensitivity to fearfulness in faces. MDPI 2022-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9029591/ /pubmed/35448010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gehb, Gloria Vesker, Michael Jovanovic, Bianca Bahn, Daniela Kauschke, Christina Schwarzer, Gudrun The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title | The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title_full | The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title_fullStr | The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title_short | The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants |
title_sort | relationship between crawling and emotion discrimination in 9- to 10-month-old infants |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029591/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35448010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479 |
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