ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2016
Age-related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event-related potentials.
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- Sexual preference for prepubescent children is associated with enhanced processing of child faces in juveniles.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Preschoolers' Sensitivity to Negative and Positive Emotional Facial Expressions: An ERP Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Stability and change in emotional processing across development: A 6-year longitudinal investigation using event-related potentials.Psychophysiology · 2019Article
- Attentional Processing of Facial Expressions and Gaze Direction in Depression and First-Episode Psychosis as Reflected by LPP Modulation.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2019Article
- Attenuated LPP to Emotional Face Stimuli Associated with Parent- and Self-Reported Depression in Children and Adolescents.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Largely Typical Electrophysiological Affective Responses to Special Interest Stimuli in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
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Abstract
Socio-emotional processing is an essential part of development, and age-related changes in its neural correlates can be observed. The late positive potential (LPP) is a measure of motivated attention that can be used to assess emotional processing; however, changes in the LPP elicited by emotional faces have not been assessed across a wide age range in childhood and young adulthood. We used an emotional face matching task to examine behavior and event-related potentials (ERPs) in 33 youth aged 7-19 years old. Younger children were slower when performing the matching task. The LPP elicited by emotional faces but not control stimuli (geometric shapes) decreased with age; by contrast, an earlier ERP (the P1) decreased with age for both faces and shapes, suggesting increased efficiency of early visual processing. Results indicate age-related attenuation in emotional processing that may stem from greater efficiency and regulatory control when performing a socio-emotional task.
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