Auditory emotion word primes influence emotional face categorization in children and adults, but not vice versa
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Auditory emotion word primes influence emotional face categorization in children and adults, but not vice versa. / Vesker, Michael; Bahn, Daniela; Kauschke, Christina et al.
In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 9, No. MAY, 618, 01.05.2018.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Auditory emotion word primes influence emotional face categorization in children and adults, but not vice versa
AU - Vesker, Michael
AU - Bahn, Daniela
AU - Kauschke, Christina
AU - Tschense, Monika
AU - Degé, Franziska
AU - Schwarzer, Gudrun
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - In order to assess how the perception of audible speech and facial expressions influence one another for the perception of emotions, and how this influence might change over the course of development, we conducted two cross-modal priming experiments with three age groups of children (6-, 9-, and 12-years old), as well as college-aged adults. In Experiment 1, 74 children and 24 adult participants were tasked with categorizing photographs of emotional faces as positive or negative as quickly as possible after being primed with emotion words presented via audio in valence-congruent and valence-incongruent trials. In Experiment 2, 67 children and 24 adult participants carried out a similar categorization task, but with faces acting as visual primes, and emotion words acting as auditory targets. The results of Experiment 1 showed that participants made more errors when categorizing positive faces primed by negative words versus positive words, and that 6-year-old children are particularly sensitive to positive word primes, giving faster correct responses regardless of target valence. Meanwhile, the results of Experiment 2 did not show any congruency effects for priming by facial expressions. Thus, audible emotion words seem to exert an influence on the emotional categorization of faces, while faces do not seem to influence the categorization of emotion words in a significant way.
AB - In order to assess how the perception of audible speech and facial expressions influence one another for the perception of emotions, and how this influence might change over the course of development, we conducted two cross-modal priming experiments with three age groups of children (6-, 9-, and 12-years old), as well as college-aged adults. In Experiment 1, 74 children and 24 adult participants were tasked with categorizing photographs of emotional faces as positive or negative as quickly as possible after being primed with emotion words presented via audio in valence-congruent and valence-incongruent trials. In Experiment 2, 67 children and 24 adult participants carried out a similar categorization task, but with faces acting as visual primes, and emotion words acting as auditory targets. The results of Experiment 1 showed that participants made more errors when categorizing positive faces primed by negative words versus positive words, and that 6-year-old children are particularly sensitive to positive word primes, giving faster correct responses regardless of target valence. Meanwhile, the results of Experiment 2 did not show any congruency effects for priming by facial expressions. Thus, audible emotion words seem to exert an influence on the emotional categorization of faces, while faces do not seem to influence the categorization of emotion words in a significant way.
KW - Categorization
KW - Cross-modal integration
KW - Developmental changes
KW - Emotion processing
KW - Emotion words
KW - Emotional facial expressions
KW - Priming effects
KW - Psychology
KW - Language Studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046994761&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00618
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00618
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 29765346
AN - SCOPUS:85046994761
VL - 9
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
SN - 1664-1078
IS - MAY
M1 - 618
ER -