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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| 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 | doaj.art-06d75329fa504db1ab4f0c8269684b2e2023-12-01T00:59:52ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252022-04-0112447910.3390/brainsci12040479The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old InfantsGloria Gehb0Michael Vesker1Bianca Jovanovic2Daniela Bahn3Christina Kauschke4Gudrun Schwarzer5Developmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, GermanyDevelopmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, GermanyDevelopmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, GermanyClinical Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, GermanyClinical Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, GermanyDevelopmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, GermanyThe 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/4/479emotion discriminationcrawlingfear biasmorphed facial expressions |
| spellingShingle | Gloria Gehb Michael Vesker Bianca Jovanovic Daniela Bahn Christina Kauschke Gudrun Schwarzer The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants Brain Sciences emotion discrimination crawling fear bias morphed facial expressions |
| 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 | emotion discrimination crawling fear bias morphed facial expressions |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/4/479 |
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