The integration of visual context information in facial emotion recognition in 5-to 15-year-olds

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TitreThe integration of visual context information in facial emotion recognition in 5-to 15-year-olds
Type de publicationJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuteursTheurel A, Witt A, Malsert J, Lejeune F, Fiorentini C, Barisnikov K, Gentaz E
JournalJOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume150
Pagination252-271
Date PublishedOCT
Type of ArticleArticle
ISSN0022-0965
Mots-clésChildren, Context integration, Development, Emotion, facial expression, Visual context
Résumé

The current study investigated the role of congruent visual context information in the recognition of facial emotional expression in 190 participants from 5 to 15 years of age. Children performed a matching task that presented pictures with different facial emotional expressions (anger, disgust, happiness, fear, and sadness) in two conditions: with and without a visual context. The results showed that emotions presented with visual context information were recognized more accurately than those presented in the absence of visual context. The context effect remained steady with age but varied according to the emotion presented and the gender of participants. The findings demonstrated for the first time that children from the age of 5 years are able to integrate facial expression and visual context information, and this integration improves facial emotion recognition. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

DOI10.1016/j.jecp.2016.06.004