Past research has provided support for the existence of a negativity bias, the tendency for
negativity to have a stronger impact than positivity. Theoretically, the negativity bias provides …

Historically, research characterizing the development of emotion recognition has focused on
identifying specific skills and the age periods, or milestones, at which these abilities emerge …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Cortical areas in the ventral visual pathway become selectively tuned towards the
processing of faces compared to non-face stimuli beginning around 3 months of age and …

Sensitive responding to facial information is of key importance during human social
interactions. Research shows that adults glean much information from another person's face …

Despite shared procedures with adults, electroencephalography (EEG) in early
development presents many specificities that need to be considered for good quality data …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) are advantageous for investigating cognitive development.
However, their application in infants/children is challenging given children's difficulty in …

Studies of infants growing up in high-income countries reveal developmental changes in
electroencephalography (EEG) power whereby socioeconomic factors-specifically, low SES …

A bstract Maternal odor is known to play an important role in mother-infant-interaction in
many altricial species such as rodents. However, we only know very little about its role in …

EEG studies play a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of brain development across
the lifespan. The increasing clinical and policy implications of EEG research underscore the …