ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2023
The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children.
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- Incomplete Faces Do but Masked Faces Do Not Affect Mind Perception.Psychological reports · 2026Article
- Actor-critic guided CDBN with GAN augmentation for robust facial emotion recognition.MethodsX · 2026Article
- Risks and benefits of face masks in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- To Mask or Not to Mask? Young Dual Language Learners' Mask Use Knowledge, Behavior, and Language Learning Outcomes.NABE journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Limited Effect of Masking During COVID-19 Pandemic on ADOS-2 Algorithm Scores in Toddlers With and Without Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on neurodevelopmental outcome in very low birth weight infants: a nationwide cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: toddlers learn earlier to read emotions with face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Influence of child and adult faces with face masks on emotion perception and facial mimicry.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Face masks influence emotion judgments of facial expressions: a drift-diffusion model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The influence of the type of face mask used by healthcare providers during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the report of pain: a cross-sectional study in a pediatric emergency department.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Optimizing Missouri's Preparation for the Next Pandemic: Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Part 1.Missouri medicineArticle
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Abstract
Face mask wearing was an important preventative strategy for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. However, the effects that occluding the mouth and nose area with surgical masks could have on young children's language processing and emotion recognition skills have received little investigation. To evaluate the possible effects, the current study recruited a sample of 74 children from the North West of England (aged 4-8 years). They completed two computer-based tasks with adults wearing or not wearing surgical face masks to assess (a) language processing skills and (b) emotion recognition ability. To control for individual differences, age, sex, receptive vocabulary, early reading skills, and parent-reported social-emotional competence were included in analyses. The findings from the study highlighted that although younger children were less accurate than older children, face masks did not significantly impair basic language processing ability. However, they had a significant effect on the children's emotion recognition accuracy-with masked angry faces more easily recognized and masked happy and sad faces less easily recognized. Children's age and social-emotional skills also played a role. The findings suggest that the effects of face masks should continue to be evaluated.
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