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- Title
The Effects of Parental Behavior on Infants' Neural Processing of Emotion Expressions.
- Authors
Taylor‐Colls, Samantha; Pasco Fearon, R. M.
- Abstract
Infants become sensitive to emotion expressions early in the 1st year and such sensitivity is likely crucial for social development and adaptation. Social interactions with primary caregivers may play a key role in the development of this complex ability. This study aimed to investigate how variations in parenting behavior affect infants' neural responses to emotional faces. Event-related potentials ( ERPs) to emotional faces were recorded from 40 healthy 7-month-old infants (24 males). Parental behavior was assessed and coded using the Emotional Availability Scales during free-play interaction. Sensitive parenting was associated with increased amplitudes to positive facial expressions on the face-sensitive ERP component, the negative central. Findings are discussed in relation to the interactive mechanisms influencing how infants neurally encode positive emotions.
- Subjects
PARENTING; FACIAL expression; FACE perception in infants; NONVERBAL communication in infants; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); MOTHER-infant relationship; SENSITIVITY (Personality trait)
- Publication
Child Development, 2015, Vol 86, Issue 3, p877
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12348