Emotion processing in development: An ERP Investigation

发展中的情绪处理：ERP 调查

• 批准号: 8581489
• 负责人: PATRICIA J. BAUER
• 金额: $ 7.59万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8581489
• 关键词: 10 year old; 13 year old; 16 year old; Achievement; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Affective; Aggressive behavior; Anxiety; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Cognition; Conduct Disorder; Development; Disease; Due Process; Emotional; Emotions; Event; Event-Related Potentials; Exhibits; Female; Gender; Individual; Individual Differences; International; Investigation; Learning; Life; Longevity; Memory; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Milk; Oppositional Defiant Disorder; Participant; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Prevalence; Process; Research; Resolution; Sampling; School-Age Population; Schools; Sex Characteristics; Stimulus; System; Testing; Time; Variant; Work; age group; age related; base; elementary school; emotion regulation; emotional experience; emotional reaction; emotional stimulus; experience; loved ones; male; millisecond; neural patterning; neuroimaging; public health relevance; response; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many of the experiences of everyday life induce emotional reactions, ranging from low to highly arousing. There has been substantial progress in understanding how adults process emotional events. The work has made clear that the ways in which individuals represent and express their emotional experiences has implications for mental health. Because of the importance of emotional construal to the quality of everyday life and to mental health, it is crucial that we understand emotion processing across the lifespan. Research with adults has revealed characteristic patterns of response to emotional stimuli as well as both individual and gender differences in processing of emotional experience. There also has been substantial research on expression and regulation of emotion early in development, as young children are beginning to learn about the causes and consequences of emotional experiences. In contrast, there has been little research on emotion processing in the elementary school years and into adolescence. As a result, we know little about the timing or course of developmental changes leading up to mature emotion processing. The proposed research will begin to fill these gaps by using the neuroimaging tool of event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine emotion processing in school-age children through middle adolescence. ERPs are ideally suited to examination of emotion processing due to their exquisite temporal resolution (on the scale of milliseconds), permitting observation of emotional responses in real time, as they are experienced. The work will be used to address two specific aims: (1a) examination of developmental changes in emotion processing in school- age children to young adolescents, with samples sufficiently large to permit examination of the emergence of gender-differential patterns of emotion processing that may be associated with internalizing and externalizing disorders (in females and males, respectively); (1b) examination of the emergence of patterns of neural response to emotional stimuli that are typical in adults, yet which to date have not been observed in children; and (2) examining emotion processing both as children process emotional stimuli for the first time and as they re-experience the events through memory, thereby providing a more complete perspective on developmental changes in emotion processing. The proposed research will elucidate the typical course of development of emotion processing in childhood through middle adolescence, when mature patterns of emotion processing are expected to become apparent. The research will be foundational for later translational work aimed at understanding emotion processing gone awry, such as observed in internalizing and externalizing disorders of childhood and adolescence. The combination of paradigms for examining processing of emotion in the moment and based on memory will be especially powerful, with high ecological validity.

描述（由申请人提供）：日常生活中的许多经历都会引起情绪反应，从低到高。在理解成年人如何处理情绪事件方面已经取得了实质性的进展。这项研究表明，个人表现和表达情感体验的方式对心理健康有影响。由于情感联系对日常生活质量和心理健康的重要性，我们了解整个生命过程中的情感处理至关重要。对成年人的研究揭示了对情绪刺激的反应的特征模式，以及在处理情绪体验方面的个体和性别差异。随着幼儿开始了解情绪体验的原因和后果，对发育早期的情绪表达和调节也进行了大量研究。相比之下，很少有研究情绪处理在小学几年，进入青春期。因此，我们对导致成熟情绪处理的发展变化的时间或过程知之甚少。本研究将开始填补这些空白，利用事件相关电位（ERP）的神经影像学工具，研究学龄儿童到青春期中期的情绪加工。ERP非常适合于检查情绪处理，因为它们具有精确的时间分辨率（毫秒级），可以在真实的时间内观察情绪反应。这项工作将用于解决两个具体目标：（1a）检查学龄儿童到青少年情绪处理的发展变化，样本足够大，以允许检查可能与内化和外化障碍有关的情绪处理的性别差异模式的出现（分别在女性和男性中）;（1b）检查对成人典型的情绪刺激的神经反应模式的出现，但迄今为止尚未在儿童中观察到;（2）考察儿童在第一次处理情绪刺激和通过记忆重新体验事件时的情绪加工，从而为情绪加工的发展变化提供一个更完整的视角。拟议的研究将阐明从童年到青春期中期的情绪处理发展的典型过程，此时情绪处理的成熟模式有望变得明显。这项研究将为以后的翻译工作奠定基础，旨在了解情绪处理出错，例如在儿童和青少年的内化和外化障碍中观察到的。将基于记忆的情感加工范式与基于当下的情感加工范式相结合，将具有特别强大的功能，并具有高度的生态有效性。