M. Missana
Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study
Missana, M.; Rajhans, P.; Atkinson, A.P.; Grossmann, T.
Abstract
Responding to others’ emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Adults readily detect emotions from body postures, but it is unclear whether infants are sensitive to emotional body postures. We examined 8-month-old infants’ brain responses to emotional body postures by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) to happy and fearful bodies. Our results revealed two emotion-sensitive ERP components: body postures evoked an early N290 at occipital electrodes and a later Nc at fronto-central electrodes that were enhanced in response to fearful (relative to happy) expressions. These findings demonstrate that: (a) 8-month-old infants discriminate between static emotional body postures; and (b) similar to infant emotional face perception, the sensitivity to emotional body postures is reflected in early perceptual (N290) and later attentional (Nc) neural processes. This provides evidence for an early developmental emergence of the neural processes involved in the discrimination of emotional body postures.
Citation
Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: an event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 30, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 24, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jul 24, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Aug 18, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 28, 2015 |
Journal | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
Electronic ISSN | 1662-5161 |
Publisher | Frontiers Media |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531 |
Keywords | Emotion, Infants, Body expressions, ERP, Development. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1422233 |
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© 2014 Missana, Rajhans, Atkinson and Grossmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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