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Emotion recognition following early psychosocial deprivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2013

Charles A. Nelson III ,
Alissa Westerlund ,
Jennifer Martin McDermott ,
Charles H. Zeanah  and
Nathan A. Fox
Charles A. Nelson III*
Affiliation:
Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Alissa Westerlund
Affiliation:
Boston Children's Hospital
Jennifer Martin McDermott
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Charles H. Zeanah
Affiliation:
Tulane University
Nathan A. Fox
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Charles A. Nelson III, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 6th Floor, 1 Autumn Street, Boston, MA 02215; E-mail: charles.nelson@childrens.harvard.edu.
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Abstract

An important function of the brain is to scan incoming sensory information for the presence of relevant signals and act on this information. For humans, the most salient signals are often social in nature, such as the identity and the emotional expression of the faces we encounter in our everyday lives. It can be argued that our survival as a species depends in large measure on these skills.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 2013 , pp. 517 - 525
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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