Abstract
The current study examined perceptual differences between adults and youth in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. We estimated individuals' internal representation for facial expressions and compared it between age groups (adolescents: N = 108, Mage = 13.04 years, 43.52% female; adults: N = 81, Mage = 31.54, 65.43% female). We found that adolescents' perceptual representation for facial emotion is broader than that of adults', such that adolescents experience more difficulty in identifying subtle configurational differences of facial expressions. At the neural level, perceptual uncertainty in faceselective regions (e.g., fusiform face area, occipital face area) were significantly higher for adolescents than for adults, suggesting that adolescents' brains more similarly represent lower intensity emotional faces than do adults'. Our results provide evidence for age-related differences concerning psychophysical differences in perceptual representation of emotional faces at the neural and behavioral level.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Emotion |
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| State | Accepted/In press - Jan 1 2019 |
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Keywords
- Adolescents
- Face emotion perception
- MVPA
- Uncertainty
- fMRI
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
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Perceiving Facial Affective Ambiguity : A Behavioral and Neural Comparison of Adolescents and Adults. / Lee, Tae Ho; Perino, Michael T.; McElwain, Nancy L.; Telzer, Eva H.
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AU - Lee, Tae Ho
AU - Perino, Michael T.
AU - McElwain, Nancy L.
AU - Telzer, Eva H.
PY - 2019/1/1
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N2 - The current study examined perceptual differences between adults and youth in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. We estimated individuals' internal representation for facial expressions and compared it between age groups (adolescents: N = 108, Mage = 13.04 years, 43.52% female; adults: N = 81, Mage = 31.54, 65.43% female). We found that adolescents' perceptual representation for facial emotion is broader than that of adults', such that adolescents experience more difficulty in identifying subtle configurational differences of facial expressions. At the neural level, perceptual uncertainty in faceselective regions (e.g., fusiform face area, occipital face area) were significantly higher for adolescents than for adults, suggesting that adolescents' brains more similarly represent lower intensity emotional faces than do adults'. Our results provide evidence for age-related differences concerning psychophysical differences in perceptual representation of emotional faces at the neural and behavioral level.
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KW - Uncertainty
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