Judging and coding facial expression of emotions in congenitally blind children

摘要: We investigate the facial expression of emotions in very young congenitally blind children to find out whether these are objectively and subjectively recognisable. also try see adequacy changes as get older. video recorded expressions 10 sighted (as a control group) seven everyday situations considered emotion elicitors. The sequences were analysed according Maximally Discriminative Facial Movement Coding System (Max; Izard, 1979) then judged by 280 decoders who used four scales (two dimensional two categorical) for their answers. results showed that all subjects (both sighted) able express facially, though not always theoretically expected pattern. Recognition various was fairly accurate, but some systematically confused with others. decoders' ans...