It is commonly assumed that a person's emotional state can be readily inferred from his or
her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This …

The literature on infants' perception of facial and vocal expressions, combined with data from
studies on infant-directed speech, mother–infant interaction, and social referencing …

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches—the theory of constructed
emotion and rational constructivism—to introduce several novel hypotheses for …

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but
this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being" blank slates" that …

The chapter begins by addressing the theoretical platform endorsed by the authors that
consists of an integration of functionalist perspectives with dynamic systems and social …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

Efforts to bridge emotion theory with neurobiology can be facilitated by dynamic systems
(DS) modeling. DS principles stipulate higher-order wholes emerging from lower-order …

In this important volume, Lois Bloom brings together the theoretical and empirical work she
has carried out on early lexical development. Its focus is on the expressive power children …

This study assessed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis, which holds that in early
infancy information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two sense …

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 …