Do surprised faces affect infants’ attention toward novel objects?

• Verfasst von: Höhl, Stefanie [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Pauen, Sabina [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Do surprised faces affect infants’ attention toward novel objects?
• Verf.angabe: Stefanie Hoehl and Sabina Pauen
• E-Jahr: 2011
• Jahr: December 7, 2011
• Umfang: 5 S.
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 29.07.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Neuroreport
• Ort Quelle: London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1990
• Jahr Quelle: 2011
• Band/Heft Quelle: 22(2011), 17 vom: Dez., Seite 906-910
• ISSN Quelle: 1473-558X
• DOI: doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834cd751
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Höhl, Stefanie, 1983 - : Do surprised faces affect infants’ attention toward novel objects?. - 2011
• K10plus-PPN: 1812007132

Abstract

Previous research has shown that expressions of fear have an effect on infants’ object processing. This event-related potential study addresses the question whether surprised faces affect infants’ brain responses to objects in a similar way, as both expressions share a crucial perceptual feature, wide-opened eyes. Three-month and 9-month-old infants were presented with surprised and neutral faces gazing toward objects. Following each face looking toward an object, the object was presented again without the face. Three-month-olds directed an increased attention to objects that were previously gaze cued by a surprised compared with neutral face as indicated by an enhanced negative central component. This replicates earlier findings using fearful compared with neutral faces as stimuli. Nine-month-olds did not show different responses to objects in both conditions. This suggests that surprised faces have the same effect as fearful faces on 3-month-olds’, but not on 9-month-olds’ object processing. The findings are discussed in terms of social cognitive and visuoperceptual development.