Abstract

A number of primary discrete emotions emerge over the first year of life. Little is known about the relation between facial signs of these affects and concomitant central nervous system processes. The research proposed in this application is designed to provide the first fundamental knowledge on this question. It is novel methodologically in combining the precision of detailed coding procedures for the measurement of facial affect with sophisticated techniques for the analysis of noninvasively recorded brain activity. Infants at 6 months and 12 months of age will be studied. The same affect eliciting conditions will be presented at each age. These include presentation of a sweet and sour taste, placement on the visual cliff and the mother smiling or frowning at her infant. Brain electrical activity from left and right sided leads in the frontal and parietal regions will be recorded. The research will focus on hemispheric asymmetry associated with the presence of different facial signs of discrete emotion. These findings will provide important new information on the relation between maturational changes in brain function and the emergence of different emotion systems over the first year of life.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HD017899-05
Application #
3314913
Study Section
Cognition, Emotion, and Personality Research Review Committee (CEP)
Project Start
1985-04-01
Project End
1991-05-31
Budget Start
1989-06-01
Budget End
1990-05-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
1989
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Maryland College Park
Department
Type
Schools of Education
DUNS #
City
College Park
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
20742

  Publications

Nozadi, Sara S; White, Lauren K; Degnan, Kathryn A et al. (2018) Longitudinal Relations between Behavioral Inhibition and Social Information Processing: Moderating Role of Maternal Supportive Reactions to Children's Emotions. Soc Dev 27:571-585
Buzzell, George A; Troller-Renfree, Sonya V; Barker, Tyson V et al. (2017) A Neurobehavioral Mechanism Linking Behaviorally Inhibited Temperament and Later Adolescent Social Anxiety. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 56:1097-1105
White, Lauren K; Degnan, Kathryn A; Henderson, Heather A et al. (2017) Developmental Relations Among Behavioral Inhibition, Anxiety, and Attention Biases to Threat and Positive Information. Child Dev 88:141-155
Penela, Elizabeth C; Walker, Olga L; Degnan, Kathryn A et al. (2015) Early Behavioral Inhibition and Emotion Regulation: Pathways Toward Social Competence in Middle Childhood. Child Dev 86:1227-1240
Walker, Olga L; Degnan, Kathryn A; Fox, Nathan A et al. (2015) Early social fear in relation to play with an unfamiliar peer: Actor and partner effects. Dev Psychol 51:1588-96
Ehrlich, Katherine B; Gerson, Sarah A; Vanderwert, Ross E et al. (2015) Hypervigilance to Rejecting Stimuli in Rejection Sensitive Individuals: Behavioral and Neurocognitive Evidence. Pers Individ Dif 85:7-12
Degnan, Kathryn A; Hane, Amie Ashley; Henderson, Heather A et al. (2015) Emergent patterns of risk for psychopathology: The influence of infant avoidance and maternal caregiving on trajectories of social reticence. Dev Psychopathol 27:1163-78
Barker, Tyson V; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany C; Fox, Nathan A (2014) Individual differences in fear potentiated startle in behaviorally inhibited children. Dev Psychobiol 56:133-41
Lahat, Ayelet; Lamm, Connie; Chronis-Tuscano, Andrea et al. (2014) Early behavioral inhibition and increased error monitoring predict later social phobia symptoms in childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 53:447-55
Lahat, Ayelet; Walker, Olga L; Lamm, Connie et al. (2014) Cognitive conflict links behavioral inhibition and social problem solving during social exclusion in childhood. Infant Child Dev 23:273-282

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