ArticlePloS one2018
Dynamic facial expressions of emotions are discriminated at birth.
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- Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Sensorimotor Activity and Network Connectivity to Dynamic and Static Emotional Faces in 7-Month-Old Infants.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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- A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- The modulation of facial mimicry by attachment tendencies and their underlying affiliation motives in 3-year-olds: An EMG study.PloS one · 2019Article
- First Sounds of Emotion: Newborns' Sensitivity to Emotional Prosody and Its Relation With Maternal Depressive Traits.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
The ability to discriminate between different facial expressions is fundamental since the first stages of postnatal life. The aim of this study is to investigate whether 2-days-old newborns are capable to discriminate facial expressions of emotions as they naturally take place in everyday interactions, that is in motion. When two dynamic displays depicting a happy and a disgusted facial expression were simultaneously presented (i.e., visual preference paradigm), newborns did not manifest any visual preference (Experiment 1). Nonetheless, after being habituated to a happy or disgusted dynamic emotional expression (i.e., habituation paradigm), newborns successfully discriminated between the two (Experiment 2). These results indicate that at birth newborns are sensitive to dynamic faces expressing emotions.
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