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Montirosso, Rosario; Peverelli, Milena; Frigerio, Elisa; Crespi, Monica; Borgatti, Renato – Social Development, 2010
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the intensity of emotion expression on children's developing ability to label emotion during a dynamic presentation of five facial expressions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness). A computerized task (AFFECT--animated full facial expression comprehension test) was used to…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Patterns, Recognition (Psychology), Young Children
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Brenna, Viola; Proietti, Valentina; Montirosso, Rosario; Turati, Chiara – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The current study examined whether and how the presence of a positive or a negative emotional expression may affect the face recognition process at 3 months of age. Using a familiarization procedure, Experiment 1 demonstrated that positive (i.e., happiness), but not negative (i.e., fear and anger) facial expressions facilitate infants' ability to…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Cognitive Ability
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Turati, Chiara; Montirosso, Rosario; Brenna, Viola; Ferrara, Veronica; Borgatti, Renato – Infancy, 2011
Recent studies demonstrated that in adults and children recognition of face identity and facial expression mutually interact (Bate, Haslam, & Hodgson, 2009; Spangler, Schwarzer, Korell, & Maier-Karius, 2010). Here, using a familiarization paradigm, we explored the relation between these processes in early infancy, investigating whether 3-month-old…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Recognition (Psychology), Child Development