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 …

Many emotional stimuli are processed without being consciously perceived. Recent
evidence indicates that subcortical structures have a substantial role in this processing …

Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between
infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of …

Gaze—where one looks, how long, and when—plays an essential part in human social
behavior. While many aspects of social gaze have been reviewed, there is no …

Eye tracking has the potential to characterize autism at a unique intermediate level, with
links 'down'to underlying neurocognitive networks, as well as 'up'to everyday function and …

Infant research is hard. It is difficult, expensive, and time‐consuming to identify, recruit, and
test infants. As a result, ours is a field of small sample sizes. Many studies using infant …

Humans in different cultures develop a similar capacity to recognize the emotional signals of
diverse facial expressions. This capacity is mediated by a brain network that involves …

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 …

How and when infants and young children begin to develop emotion categories is not yet
well understood. Research has largely treated the learning problem as one of identifying …

The adult brain is endowed with mechanisms subserving enhanced processing of salient
emotional and social cues. Stimuli associated with threat represent one such class of cues …