Study of Durham University's Department of Psychology finds out that children pick up on the emotions by hearing, while adults by seeing. These findings can help both parents and educators to observe how children process happenings around them as they spend more time home than usual, as well as learning more about the emotional background of mentally ill children with communication difficulties such as autism.
Volunteers in three age categories (0-7, 8-11 and 18+) were undertaken two experiments to test the ‘Colavita effect’, which shows that children of age 8+ respond more to visual stimuli in more complex situations. The participants were exposed to both visual and auditory stimuli examination and the final results showed that the two stimuli were combined; adults’ emotions were based on what they saw, whilst young children on what they heard. Even if they were asked to concentrate on body judgement instead, children failed in ignoring the voices.
Further researches will try to find out children’s emotions when they face someone who shows facial expressions and talks at the same time and their reaction when speech is replaced with music.
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