What May Drive this Development and Individual Differences

Time:  27 ^th May 14:00 CEST

We will focus on what the research indicates may drive the development of socio-emotional processing of emotional expressions - particularly, we will consider maturation versus the influence of the environment. On a related note, we will then consider what may lead to differences between individuals. This will culminate in group debates of maturational vs environmental processes (the perspectives will be assigned).

Workshop content

• We will consider how different pieces of research may support different drivers of development, as well as why this may be a difficult debate to settle.
• We will discuss individual differences that may moderate the development of these skills, such as infant temperament.
• We will discuss how these individual differences may “cascade” and have implications for later development of disorders in early childhood and adulthood.
• We will have a group debate on which factors drive development of socio-emotional processing of emotional expressions.

Reading List

Spittle, AJ, Treyvaud, K., Doyle, LW, Roberts, G., Lee, KJ, Inder, TE, ... & Anderson, PJ (2009). Early emergence of behavior and social-emotional problems in very preterm infants. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 48 (9), 909-918.

Farah, MJ, Rabinowitz, C., Quinn, GE, & Liu, GT (2000). Early commitment of neural substrates for face recognition. Cognitive neuropsychology, 17 (1-3), 117-123.

Joseph, JE, Gathers, AD, & Bhatt, RS (2011). Progressive and regressive developmental changes in neural substrates for face processing: testing specific predictions of the Interactive Specialization account. Developmental science, 14 (2), 227-241. *

Sloutsky, VM (1997). Institutional care and developmental outcomes of 6-and 7-year-old children: A contextualist perspective. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 20 (1), 131-151. *

Ravicz, MM, Perdue, KL, Westerlund, A., Vanderwert, RE, & Nelson, CA (2015). Infants' neural responses to facial emotion in the prefrontal cortex are correlated with temperament: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 922.