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- Title
An Eye-Tracking Study on Six Early Social-Emotional Abilities in Children Aged 1 to 3 Years.
- Authors
Cavadini, Thalia; Riviere, Elliot; Gentaz, Edouard
- Abstract
Background: The experimental evaluation of young children's socio-emotional abilities is limited by the lack of existing specific measures to assess this population and by the relative difficulty for researchers to adapt measures designed for the general population. Methods: This study examined six early social-emotional abilities in 86 typically developing children aged 1 to 3 years using an eye-tracking-based experimental paradigm that combined visual preference tasks adapted from pre-existing infant studies. Objectives: The aim of this study is to obtain developmental norms in six early social-emotional abilities in typical children aged 1 to 3 years that would be promising for an understanding of disorders of mental development. These developmental standards are essential to enable comparative assessments with children with atypical development, such as children with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD). Results: The participants had greater spontaneous visual preferences for biological (vs. non-biological) motion, socially salient (vs. non-social) stimuli, the eye (vs. mouth) area of emotional expressions, angry (vs. happy) faces, and objects of joint attention (vs. non-looked-at ones). Interestingly, although the prosocial (vs. antisocial) scene of the socio-moral task was preferred, both the helper and hinderer characters were equally gazed at. Finally, correlational analyses revealed that performance was neither related to participants' age nor to each other (dismissing the hypothesis of a common underpinning process). Conclusion: Our revised experimental paradigm is possible in infants aged 1 to 3 years and thus provides additional scientific proof on the direct assessment of these six socio-emotional abilities in this population.
- Subjects
RESEARCH funding; DATA analysis; T-test (Statistics); ANGER; EMOTIONS; VISUAL perception in children; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; CHILD development; ANALYSIS of variance; STATISTICS; DATA analysis software; EYE movements; FACIAL expression; CHILDREN
- Publication
Children, 2024, Vol 11, Issue 8, p1031
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children11081031