Longitudinal study of emotion processing and regulation: An electrocortical approach

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Individual differences in childhood emotion regulation predict important developmental outcomes, such as later academic performance, social competence, socioeconomic status, as well as physical and mental health. Emotion regulation relies on the development of executive function (EF) – the deliberate, top-down neurocognitive processes involved in emotion regulation. It is particularly related to “hot” aspects of EF, or the control processes that operate in emotionally significant situations. A first step in understanding how children regulate their emotions is to understand how they process them. Given the important outcomes of the development of emotion regulation, I propose to examine whether patterns of emotion processing in 6- to 14-year-old children are linked to emotion regulation. This age period is not only marked by important changes in emotion regulation, but also it has received relatively little attention for understanding how emotions develop and are processed in the brain.