ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2020
Perceiving facial affective ambiguity: A behavioral and neural comparison of adolescents and adults.
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- Positive Interpretation of Emotional Ambiguity Across Development: LC-dlPFC Circuitry.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Development of Ambiguity Processing Is Explained by an Inverted U-Shaped Curve.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- A Computational Model Reveals Learning Dynamics During Interpretation Bias Training With Clinical Applications.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.PloS one · 2021Article
- Links between adolescent bullying and neural activation to viewing social exclusion.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Apples to apples? Neural correlates of emotion regulation differences between high- and low-risk adolescents.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
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The current study examined perceptual differences between adults and youth in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. We estimated individuals' internal representation for facial expressions and compared it between age groups (adolescents: N = 108, Mage = 13.04 years, 43.52% female; adults: N = 81, Mage = 31.54, 65.43% female). We found that adolescents' perceptual representation for facial emotion is broader than that of adults', such that adolescents experience more difficulty in identifying subtle configurational differences of facial expressions. At the neural level, perceptual uncertainty in face-selective regions (e.g., fusiform face area, occipital face area) were significantly higher for adolescents than for adults, suggesting that adolescents' brains more similarly represent lower intensity emotional faces than do adults'. Our results provide evidence for age-related differences concerning psychophysical differences in perceptual representation of emotional faces at the neural and behavioral level. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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