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11th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS and 16th NATIONAL of CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

25-28 OCTOBER 2018, GRANADA (SPAIN)
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1 Fernando Ferreira-Santos
Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto
PORTUGAL
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Fernando Ferreira-Santos (http://ferreira-santos.eu) holds a PhD in Psychology (2013, University of Porto/University College London) and is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. He works in the fields of Affective and Social Neurosciences. His research interests are predictive processing approaches to the perception of emotion across development and the influence of emotion on social cognition (moral judgment and social decision-making), with a focus on electroencephalography (EEG) measures of brain activity. He is an elected member of the board of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) and serves as Associate Editor for the journal Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica | Psychology: Research and Review.

ABSTRACT INVITED SIMPOSIUM
Understanding facial expressions of emotion across development: Novel approaches and clinical implications
Facial expressions of emotion (FEE) are important social stimuli that are crucial for healthy development, as highlighted by research on normal and abnormal development. However, debates on the nature of emotional processes and on the neural architecture underlying these abilities have raised novel questions for developmental science. In the present symposium, we will address this issue theoretically, by discussing links between developmental and predictive processing approaches (talk 1), and empirically, by presenting novel results on the role of affective properties (valence/arousal) in the processing of FEE in the developing brain. Specifically, we will describe the effects of valence, arousal, and emotional category of FEE on event-related potentials (ERP) precursors of the adult N170 component in young (talk 2) and school-aged children (talk 3) as well as adolescents (talk 4). We will further present preliminary validation data for a new set of photographic facial expression stimuli (talk 5) highlighting clinical applications.