TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion
JO  - Developmental psychology
A1  - Pollak, Seth D.
A1  - Sinha, Pawan
SP  - 784
EP  - 791
VL  - 38
IS  - 5
N2  - The present research examines visual perception of emotion in both typical and atypical development. To examine the processes by which perceptual mechanisms become attuned to the contingencies of affective signals in the environment, the authors measured the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes. To evaluate the role of experience, they compared typically developing children with physically abused children, who were presumed to have experienced high levels of threat and hostility. As predicted, physically abused children accurately identified facial displays of anger on the basis of less sensory input than did controls, which suggests that physically abused children have facilitated access to representations of anger. The findings are discussed in terms of experiential processes in perceptual learning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0012-1649
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -