The ability to interpret emotions in facial expressions is crucial for social functioning across
the lifespan. Facial expression recognition develops rapidly during infancy and improves …

Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between
infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of …

Reading the non‐verbal cues from faces to infer the emotional states of others is central to
our daily social interactions from very early in life. Despite the relatively well‐documented …

The current series of studies provide converging evidence that facial expressions of fear and
anger may have co-evolved to mimic mature and babyish faces in order to enhance their …

The present study examined the development of recognition ability and affective reactions to
emotional facial expressions in a large sample of school-aged children (n= 504, ages 8–11 …

Very few large-scale studies have focused on emotional facial expression recognition (FER)
in 3-year-olds, an age of rapid social and language development. We studied FER in 808 …

Some accounts imply that basic-level emotion categories are acquired early and quickly,
whereas others imply that they are acquired later and more gradually. Our study examined …

Recent research indicates that adults show categorical perception of facial expressions of
emotion. It is not known whether this is a basic characteristic of perception that is present …

The ability to recognize and label emotional facial expressions is an important aspect of
social cognition. However, existing paradigms to examine this ability present only static …

Sensitivity to facial and vocal emotion is fundamental to children's social competence.
Previous research has focused on children's facial emotion recognition, and few studies …