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Article

The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants

by
Gloria Gehb
1,*,
Michael Vesker
1,
Bianca Jovanovic
1,
Daniela Bahn
2,
Christina Kauschke
2 and
Gudrun Schwarzer
1
1
Developmental Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, Germany
2
Clinical Linguistics, Philipps University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(4), 479; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479
Submission received: 21 February 2022 / Revised: 30 March 2022 / Accepted: 31 March 2022 / Published: 5 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Action Understanding and Face Processing Interweavings during Development)
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Abstract

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.
Keywords: emotion discrimination; crawling; fear bias; morphed facial expressions emotion discrimination; crawling; fear bias; morphed facial expressions

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Gehb, G.; Vesker, M.; Jovanovic, B.; Bahn, D.; Kauschke, C.; Schwarzer, G. The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479

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Gehb G, Vesker M, Jovanovic B, Bahn D, Kauschke C, Schwarzer G. The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants. Brain Sciences. 2022; 12(4):479. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479

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Gehb, Gloria, Michael Vesker, Bianca Jovanovic, Daniela Bahn, Christina Kauschke, and Gudrun Schwarzer. 2022. "The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants" Brain Sciences 12, no. 4: 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479

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Gehb, G., Vesker, M., Jovanovic, B., Bahn, D., Kauschke, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2022). The Relationship between Crawling and Emotion Discrimination in 9- to 10-Month-Old Infants. Brain Sciences, 12(4), 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040479

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