24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
11:59 a.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early
to ensure you get a seat. The talk will begin promptly at 5.
The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:
Jukka Leppanen, University of Tampere
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
*The 7-month transition in attention to social signals of emotion*
Cross-species evidence suggests that the onset of locomotion and
explorations away from the mother early in life is associated with
functional maturation of emotion-related neural circuitry and behavioral
sensitivity to danger-alerting cues. In human infants, these developmental
changes in emotion-processing may occur during the second half of the first
year when infants begin to exhibit preferential attention to social signals
of fear. My talk will discuss this argument by reviewing i) studies
examining the neural bases and nature of infants' attentional bias towards
social signals of fear; ii) studies that have begun to link genetic
variations in brain function with fear-processing in human infants; and
iii) preliminary data suggesting that individual variations in early
perceptual biases towards emotional cues may be relevant for predicting
typical and atypical emotional traits later in life.
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