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Developing an understanding of emotion categories: Lessons from objects

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Hoemann, Katie, Wu, Rachel, LoBue, Vanessa, Oakes, Lisa M., Xu, Fei, Barrett, Lisa Feldman·2020·Trends in Cognitive Sciences
DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2019.10.010PMC PMC6943182
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How and when infants and young children begin to develop emotion categories is not yet well understood. Research has largely treated the learning problem as one of identifying perceptual similarities among exemplars (typically posed, stereotyped facial configurations). However, recent meta-analyses and reviews converge to suggest that emotion categories are abstract, involving high-dimensional and situationally variable instances. In this paper we consult research on the development of abstract object categorization to guide hypotheses about how infants might learn abstract emotion categories because the two domains present infants with similar learning challenges. In particular, we consider how a developmental cascades framework offers opportunities to understand how and when young children develop emotion categories.

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  • Supervised category learning such as word learning is an important source of emotional development and cultural inheritance.

    “Thus, 'supervised category learning' such as word learning is an important source of emotional development and cultural inheritance.58,141,157,158”

    From A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder (2022) · cites this paper as [141]

    In “Applying a Developmental Cascades Approach to Emotion Category Learning” (page unavailable), the paper proposes that caregivers’ emotion labels and children’s word learning may shape developing emotion categories. “Implications for Future Research” discusses cultural variation in emotion categories, but does not establish word learning as a mechanism of cultural inheritance. The paper also presents the developmental role of labels as a hypothesis, rather than an established finding. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • The expansion of the human brain allows for compression and dimensionality reduction, suggesting that we can assemble multimodal summaries (features) in early infancy and later in life.

    “The expansion of the human brain allows for compression and dimensionality reduction, suggesting that we can assemble multimodal summaries (i.e.features) in early infancy and later in life.129,141,142”

    From A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder (2022) · cites this paper as [141]

    In “Learning Abstract Categories via Developmental Cascades” (page unavailable), the paper describes infants learning abstract object features and inferring functional similarities across perceptually different instances. It does not link this ability to expansion of the human brain or describe it as compression or dimensionality reduction; nor does it establish the claimed process later in life. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • We can assemble multimodal summaries, i.e. features, in early infancy and later in life.

    “and dimensionality reduction, suggesting that we can assemble multimodal summaries (i.e.features) in early infancy and later in life.129,141,142”

    From A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder (2022) · cites this paper as [141]

    The sections on emotion-category learning describe infants using varying perceptual features, including facial movements and vocalizations, to infer meaning. The paper also proposes that these ideas could inform research across the lifespan, but it does not establish that people assemble multimodal summaries both in early infancy and later in life. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Hoemann, K., Wu, R., LoBue, V., Oakes, L. M., Xu, F., & Barrett, L. F.
Affiliations
  • Northeastern University (US)
  • University of California, Riverside (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
  • Wu, Rachel
  • Barrett, Lisa Feldman
ORCID
Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-01
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
39-51
ISSN
1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.tics.2019.10.010
PMC
PMC6943182
OpenAlex
W2989949548
Cited by
123
References
119
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 42
FWCI
3.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Lirias (KU Leuven) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Cancer Institute
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
emotion classification, developmental cascades, facial expression perception, perceptual similarity, conceptual development
MeSH terms
Child, Child, Preschool, Emotions, Face, Humans, Infant, Learning

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