ArticleDevelopmental science2018
Using facial muscular movements to understand young children's emotion regulation and concurrent neural activation.
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- A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- From seeing to showing: towards a neuroscience of emotion production.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- Incongruent affect in early childhood: Neurobiological markers and links to psychopathology.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Prefrontal modulation of frustration-related physiology in preschool children ranging from low to severe irritability.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Children's Facial Muscular Movements and Risk for Early Psychopathology: Assessing Clinical Utility.Behavior therapy · 2020Article
- Neural correlates of early deliberate emotion regulation: Young children's responses to interpersonal scaffolding.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Irritability uniquely predicts prefrontal cortex activation during preschool inhibitory control among all temperament domains: A LASSO approach.NeuroImage · 2019Article
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Abstract
Individual differences in young children's frustration responses set the stage for myriad developmental outcomes and represent an area of intense empirical interest. Emotion regulation is hypothesized to comprise the interplay of complex behaviors, such as facial expressions, and activation of concurrent underlying neural systems. At present, however, the literature has mostly examined children's observed emotion regulation behaviors and assumed underlying brain activation through separate investigations, resulting in theoretical gaps in our understanding of how children regulate emotion in vivo. Our goal was to elucidate links between young children's emotion regulation-related neural activation, facial muscular movements, and parent-rated temperamental emotion regulation. Sixty-five children (age 3-7) completed a frustration-inducing computer task while lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) activation and concurrent facial expressions were recorded. Negative facial expressions with eye constriction were inversely associated with both parent-rated temperamental emotion regulation and concurrent LPFC activation. Moreover, we found evidence that positive expressions with eye constriction during frustration may be associated with stronger LPFC activation. Results suggest a correspondence between facial expressions and LPFC activation that may explicate how children regulate emotion in real time.
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