Emerging Motivation: Modeling Early Interactive Emotional Development

摘要

Early infant emotional development concerns the interactive emergence of emotional states that may motivate approach and withdrawal in epigenetic systems. Different patterns of infant facial expressions, vocalization, and gazing emerge within dyadic interactions in the first 10 months of life. Concretely, the interface of a limited number of interactive parameters create complex real-time patterns which change over developmental time. I describe these phenomena using statistical simulations, continuous ratings, computer vision modeling, and old-fashioned observation, ponder their psychological meaning, and indicate how they are ripe for formal modeling.