Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.

The aim of the present research was to assess age-related differences in how children and adults interpret and visually process emotionally ambiguous neutral faces. Children and adults provided neutral child faces with valence and arousal ratings while eye movements were recorded. Consistent with pr...

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Autores principales:	Leslie Rollins, Erin Bertero, Laurie Hunter
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:25bbaa052cb6485da60ddb4efbbf7ca72021-12-02T20:18:05ZDevelopmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256109https://doaj.org/article/25bbaa052cb6485da60ddb4efbbf7ca72021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256109https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The aim of the present research was to assess age-related differences in how children and adults interpret and visually process emotionally ambiguous neutral faces. Children and adults provided neutral child faces with valence and arousal ratings while eye movements were recorded. Consistent with previous research, children and adults both interpreted the neutral faces as negatively valenced. Both age groups showed fewer fixations to the eye region when they rated the faces as positive. However, adults fixated more on the eye region when they rated the faces as negative whereas children fixated more on the eye region when they rated the faces as neutral. This finding may suggest that children strategically allocate attentional resources to the eye region when processing emotionally ambiguous faces to gather critical affective information. These findings have implications for the utilization of neutral faces as an experimental control condition and serve as the foundation for future research on the development of mechanisms that underlie the interpretation of emotionally ambiguous faces.Leslie RollinsErin BerteroLaurie HunterPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0256109 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Leslie Rollins Erin Bertero Laurie Hunter Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
description	The aim of the present research was to assess age-related differences in how children and adults interpret and visually process emotionally ambiguous neutral faces. Children and adults provided neutral child faces with valence and arousal ratings while eye movements were recorded. Consistent with previous research, children and adults both interpreted the neutral faces as negatively valenced. Both age groups showed fewer fixations to the eye region when they rated the faces as positive. However, adults fixated more on the eye region when they rated the faces as negative whereas children fixated more on the eye region when they rated the faces as neutral. This finding may suggest that children strategically allocate attentional resources to the eye region when processing emotionally ambiguous faces to gather critical affective information. These findings have implications for the utilization of neutral faces as an experimental control condition and serve as the foundation for future research on the development of mechanisms that underlie the interpretation of emotionally ambiguous faces.
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title	Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
title_short	Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
title_full	Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
title_fullStr	Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
title_full_unstemmed	Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
title_sort	developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.
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Developmental differences in the visual processing of emotionally ambiguous neutral faces based on perceived valence.

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