Last month, the DSEC Lab posted about adult emotion recognition, but have you ever wondered if infants š¶ have emotion recognition capabilities? For example, when an infantās parent smiles or frowns, can the infant tell how their parent is feeling šØāš¼?
Emotion recognition is defined as the ability to interpret how other people are feeling based on their nonverbal cues. While infants canāt yet name the emotion they are recognizing in their parentās expression, they can understand it. Infants use their parentsā emotional cues, such as a frown, to determine how they should respond to situations ā a concept called social referencing!
Swipe through the slides to find out more about emotion recognition in infants and at what age this is thought to start. Thank you to directed lab student Zoe Halpern for putting this post together š.
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