Investigating the influence of natural social information on infants’ development of emotion understanding

研究自然社会信息对婴儿情绪理解发展的影响

• 批准号: 10228816
• 负责人: Marissa Ogren
• 金额: $ 6.56万
• 依托单位: RUTGERS THE STATE UNIV OF NJ NEWARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10228816
• 关键词: Address; Affective; Age; Age-Months; Anger; Applied Research; Attention; Basic Science; Behavioral; Categories; Child; Child Development; Code; Cognitive; Cognitive Science; Competence; Data; Development; Diagnostic; Early Intervention; Emotional; Emotional disorder; Emotions; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Expressed Emotion; Eye Movements; Face; Facial Expression; Foundations; Goals; Infant; Infant Development; Intervention; Label; Language; Learning; Life; Linguistics; Literature; Measures; Mentorship; Methodology; Mothers; Movement; Nursery Schools; Pattern; Perception; Play; Quality of life; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Specificity; Stereotyping; Thinking; Time; Training; Transcript; Translating; Variant; Visit; base; career; cognitive development; developmental psychology; expectation; experience; improved; novel strategies; peer; recruit; relating to nervous system; response; sensory input; showing emotion; skills; social; success; theories; visual tracking

Project Summary/Abstract The ability to perceive and categorize emotion information early in life is crucial for healthy social cognitive development. Prior research has attempted to identify how infants and young children learn about others’ emotions by examining whether those children can differentiate or label exaggerated, stereotypical facial configurations. However, in real life, emotions are expressed with substantially more variability than what is depicted in these stereotyped configurations. Thus, the actual dynamic input that infants are exposed to as they are forming emotion categories is still unknown. To accurately identify how infants and young children develop emotion categories, it is imperative to first, understand what emotion information (e.g., facial configurations, emotion labels) infants are exposed to in their natural environments, and to second, identify how this natural input relates to infant emotion perception and categorization. The current proposal will address this gap in the literature with two aims. Specifically, Aim 1 will characterize infants’ exposure to social information in their natural environment. Building on this information, Aim 2 will examine the relation between infants’ exposure to natural social information and their emotion perception. Aim 1 will be addressed using an existing corpus of video and audio data. When infants from the corpus are 6, 10, and 14 months of age, videos will be FACS coded to identify what facial configurations are common in infants’ field of view, and audio will be coded for use of emotion labels. For Aim 2, a new group of infants will be recruited to visit the lab longitudinally at the same three time points (6, 10, and 14 months) as those coded in the corpus. Mothers and infants will be recorded as they interact, and these recordings will later be coded for the same emotion information from Aim 1. Then, the infants will take part in an emotion perception task in which highly stereotyped and natural facial configurations will be presented in a categorical oddball paradigm as infant eye movements and ERPs are recorded. This study will explore how natural emotion information from the infants’ mother relates to infant responses to the emotion perception task over time. To accomplish these aims, it is imperative that the applicant gains methodological expertise in behavioral coding (FACS) and ERPs, which will allow her to accurately characterize natural social information, and to determine what emotion information infants implicitly expect to belong within emotion categories. Ultimately, results from this proposal will inform theories of emotional development and may be used to create more targeted interventions for early problems with emotion processing. These aims will be completed under the mentorship of Drs. Vanessa LoBue, Lisa Feldman-Barrett, and Lisa Oakes, who collectively have interdisciplinary expertise in a variety of methodologies and theoretical orientations. The proposed training goals, which focus on building a stronger theoretical and methodological foundation in emotional development, will expand the applicant’s skill set and better prepare her for a successful, independent research career that moves the field of emotional development forward.

项目总结/摘要 在生命早期感知和分类情感信息的能力对于健康的社会认知至关重要 发展先前的研究试图确定婴儿和幼儿是如何学习他人的 通过检查这些孩子是否能区分或标记夸张的，刻板的面部表情， 配置.然而，在真实的生活中，情感的表达比实际的表达具有更大的可变性。 描绘了这些刻板的配置。因此，婴儿所接触的实际动态输入， 它们是如何形成情感类别的，目前还不清楚。为了准确地识别婴幼儿 开发情感类别时，必须首先，理解什么情感信息（例如，面部 第二，识别婴儿在自然环境中接触到的东西， 这种自然输入与婴儿情绪感知和分类的关系。目前的提案将涉及 这一空白的文献有两个目的。具体来说，目标1将描述婴儿接触社会 自然环境中的信息。在此基础上，目标2将研究 婴儿对自然社会信息的接触与其情绪感知的关系。目标1将使用 现有的视频和音频数据的语料库。当来自语料库的婴儿是6个月、10个月和14个月时， 将进行FACS编码，以识别婴儿视野中常见的面部结构， 为情感标签而编码。对于目标2，将招募一组新的婴儿纵向访问实验室 在与语料库中编码的相同的三个时间点（6、10和14个月）。母亲和婴儿将 当他们互动时记录下来，这些记录稍后将被编码为来自Aim的相同情感信息。 1.然后，婴儿将参加一项情绪感知任务，其中高度刻板和自然的面部表情 配置将在一个分类古怪的范例，婴儿眼球运动和ERP是 记录。本研究将探讨婴儿母亲的自然情绪信息如何与婴儿发生关联 随着时间的推移对情绪感知任务的反应。为了实现这些目标， 申请人获得行为编码（FACS）和ERP的方法学专业知识，这将使她能够 准确表征自然社会信息，并确定婴儿隐含哪些情感信息 期望属于情感范畴。最终，这项提议的结果将为以下理论提供信息： 情绪发展，并可用于为早期情绪问题创造更有针对性的干预措施。 处理.这些目标将在Vanessa LoBue、丽莎费尔德曼-巴雷特、 和丽莎奥克斯，谁共同拥有跨学科的专业知识，在各种方法和理论 方向。提出的培训目标，其中重点是建立一个较强的理论和方法 情感发展的基础，将扩大申请人的技能，更好地为她做好准备。 成功的，独立的研究生涯，推动情感发展领域的前进。