{"pk":49335,"title":"Toddlers' mapping of emotion words to facial expressions and body postures in a looking-while-listening task","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Traditional research on children's emotion word comprehension has relied on explicit-response tasks and focused primarily on facial expressions, potentially underestimating early abilities. Using a looking-while-listening paradigm, this study examined whether 18- to 30-month-old children (N=100) could map emotion words to combined facial and bodily expressions. On each trial, children heard an emotion word while viewing a pair of emotional expressions that were either across valence (e.g., happy vs. sad) or within valence (e.g., sad vs. angry). Children aged 24-30 months preferentially looked at the matched expression on both trial types, while children aged 18-24 months old performed at chance levels. These findings suggest that the ability to map emotion words to facial and bodily emotional expressions emerges in early age two.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Development; Emotion; Emotion Perception; Language acquisition"}],"section":"Abstracts with Oral Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8f91s6ts","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hanqi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto Scarborough","department":""},{"first_name":"Sahej","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gulati","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto, Scarborough","department":""},{"first_name":"Yang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto Scarborough","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49335/galley/37296/download/"}]}