THE PERCEPTION OF AFFECTIVE EXPRESSIONS IN INFANCY

本项目将调查婴幼儿认知的发展。 充满感情的表达。重点放在婴儿检测到的 不变关系动态的、多模式呈现的表达行为 关于这些短语含义的潜在信息。五 提出了实验方案。这些都与婴儿对不变量的感知有关 双峰表达中的模式间关系及其检测 以及跨人的单个表达的信息的泛化， 以及辨别正在进行的声音表达的能力。年的婴儿 将包括三个月、五个月和七个月，以确定是否 婴儿的辨别和辨别能力是否有发展趋势？ 识别表情，以及是否存在任何系统差异 他们对特定表达的偏好。视觉偏好、习惯化 观察，并将使用跨模式习惯化方法。该项目 关注由以下因素决定的行为发展 心理因素，特别是当它应用于如何发展 婴儿在表达行为中抽象并使用信息来理解 它们的意义。

This project will investigate the development of infants' perceptions of affective expressions. An emphasis is placed on infants' detection of invariant relations dynamic, multimodally-presented expressive behaviors as potential information for the meaning of those expressions. Five experiments are proposed. These concern infants' perception of invariant intermodal relations in bimodally-presented expressions, their detections and generalization of information for a single expression across persons, and their ability to discriminate ongoing vocal expressions. Infants of three, five and seven months will be included in order to determine whether there are any development trends in infants' abilities to discriminate and recognize expressions, and whether there are any systematic differences in their preferences for specific expressions. Visual preference, habituation of looking, and cross-modal habituation methods will be used. The project is concerned with the development of behavior as determined by psychological factors, particularly as it applies to how the developing infant abstracts and uses information in expressive behaviors to understand their meaning.