Gehb Gloria, Vesker Michael, Jovanovic Bianca, Bahn Daniela, Kauschke Christina, Schwarzer Gudrun
Developmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, Germany.
Clinical Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
Brain Sci. 2022 Apr 5;12(4):479. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12040479.
The present study examined whether infants' crawling experience is related to their sensitivity to fearful emotional expressions. Twenty-nine 9- to 10-month-old infants were tested in a preferential looking task, in which they were presented with different pairs of animated faces on a screen displaying a 100% happy facial expression and morphed facial expressions containing varying degrees of fear and happiness. Regardless of their crawling experiences, all infants looked longer at more fearful faces. Additionally, infants with at least 6 weeks of crawling experience needed lower levels of fearfulness in the morphs in order to detect a change from a happy to a fearful face compared to those with less crawling experience. Thus, the crawling experience seems to increase infants' sensitivity to fearfulness in faces.
本研究考察了婴儿的爬行经历是否与他们对恐惧情绪表情的敏感度有关。29名9至10个月大的婴儿参与了一项偏好注视任务测试,在该任务中,他们在屏幕上看到不同的成对动画面孔,其中一张是100%的快乐表情面孔,另一张是包含不同程度恐惧和快乐情绪的变形面孔。无论其爬行经历如何,所有婴儿注视更恐惧面孔的时间都更长。此外,与爬行经历较少的婴儿相比,有至少6周爬行经历的婴儿在检测从快乐面孔到恐惧面孔的变化时,所需的变形面孔中的恐惧程度更低。因此,爬行经历似乎会提高婴儿对面部恐惧表情的敏感度。