| Literature DB >> 17138268 |
Maria Hernandez-Reif1, Tiffany Field, Miguel Diego, Yanexy Vera, Jeff Pickens.
Abstract
Three-month-old infants of depressed (n=16) and non-depressed mothers (n=16) were habituated to video clips of a female model reciting phrases while posing happy or sad facial/vocal expressions and dishabituated to the alternate expressions. Overall, infants of depressed mothers took longer to habituate the video clips compared to infants of non-depressed mothers, and those assigned to habituate the sad video clips displayed a novelty response or dishabituated to the happy expressions. These findings suggest that 3-month-old infants of depressed mothers discriminate sad from happy expressions, however, they do not appear to perceive sad expressions as novel.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 17138268 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.07.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infant Behav Dev ISSN: 0163-6383