Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood
| Autor: | Benjamin Balas, Jamie Schmidt, Alyson Saville, Amanda Auen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Visual perception
Social Psychology Age differences media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050105 experimental psychology Education Developmental psychology Nonverbal communication Developmental Neuroscience Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Task analysis 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotional expression Statistical analysis Emotion recognition Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Behavioral Development. 42:278-283 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0651 0165-0254 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025417690267 |
| Popis: | Children’s ability to recognize emotional expressions from faces and bodies develops during childhood. However, the low-level features that support accurate body emotion recognition during development have not been well characterized. This is in marked contrast to facial emotion recognition, which is known to depend upon specific spatial frequency and orientation sub-bands during adulthood, biases that develop during childhood. Here, we examined whether children’s reliance on vertical vs. horizontal orientation energy for recognizing emotional expressions in static images of bodies changed during middle childhood (5 to 10 years old). We found that while children of all ages had an adult-like bias favoring vertical orientation energy, this effect was larger at younger ages. We conclude that in terms of information use, a key feature of the development of emotion recognition is improved performance with sub-optimal features for recognition – that is, learning to use less diagnostic features of the image is a slower process than learning to use more useful features. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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