Psychological Development and Education ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 225-232.

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Facial Emotion and Interval Perception in Children Aged 3 to 8 Years

TAO Yun, MA Xie   

  1. Psychology Department, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan 650092, China
  • Online:2010-05-15 Published:2010-05-15

Abstract: Based on maturing scalar timing model and related neurological evidences,researchers provide a better understanding in two effects of emotion:the physiological effect and the attentional effect.the physiological effect may prolong perceived duration while the attentional effect may shorten it.with different characteristics respectively in the process.This study investigated age-related variations in judging the timing duration of emotional facial expressions compared with neutral stimulus.Children aged 3 to 8 years were tested on a temporal bisection task with the display of various facial expression pictures between 800 ms and 3200 ms.Results are as follows:(1) a significant effect of comparing timing duration is observed,this means all age groups are able to estimate timing duration,though the sensitivity is improving with age; (2) the judgments of timing duration of all the tested children were disturbed by their emotion,under emotional stimuli their judgments were proved to be longer than that of neutral stimuli; (3) angry stimuli were judged to be longer than happy ones in their perception of timing duration,physiological arousal effects were more obvious.

Key words: children, facial emation, interval perception, physiological arousal effect

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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