Interactive situations reveal more about children's emotional knowledge

Mothers need more information to recognise associated emotions in child facial expressions

Parenting requires mothers to read social cues and understand their children. It is particularly important that they recognise their child's emotions to react appropriately, for example, with compassion to sadness or compersion to happiness. Despite this importance, it is unclear how motherhood affects women's ability to recognise emotions associated with facial expressions in children. Using videos of an emotionally neutral face continually and gradually taking on a facial expression associated with an emotion, we quantified the amount of information needed to match the emotion with the facial expression. Mothers needed more information than non-mothers to match the emotions with the facial expressions. Both mothers and non-mothers performed equally on a control task identifying animals instead of emotions, and both groups needed less information when recognising the emotions associated with facial expressions in adolescents than pre-schoolers. These results indicate that mothers need more information for to correctly recognise typically associated emotions in child facial expressions but not for similar tasks not involving emotions. A possible explanation is that child facial expressions associated with emotions may have a greater emotional impact on mothers than non-mothers leading to task interference but possibly also to increased compassion and compersion.

Functional Imaging in Improving Children’s Mental Health Based on Behavior

At present, children’s psychological and behavioral health care is mainly based on the doctor’s observation and diagnosis. On the whole, it is inefficient, and the effect of health care cannot meet the current needs of children’s behavior. Therefore, this paper uses the method of functional imaging to study the key factors of children’s behavioral health care. In this paper, the structure and function of children’s brain are associated with children’s psychological behavior. The brain structure of 64 children in our city is detected by functional image processing, and 64 children are divided into groups according to the detection results. According to the children’s performance, the children were divided into physical disorder (11 cases), emotional disorder (14 cases), cognitive disorder (12 cases), and normal group (42 cases). Among them, 3 cases had three kinds of disorders, 6 cases had both emotional and cognitive disorders, 7 cases had physical and emotional disorders, and 5 cases had physical and cognitive disorders. In this paper, according to the research data of functional imaging on different levels of children’s brain, we use computer to model and simulate through digital conversion technology, draw the neural network Atlas of children’s psychological behavior, compare the children’s representation and image characteristics according to functional imaging, and then, study the relationship between children’s signs and images, to make a plan for improving children’s psychological behavior health care. The study shows that in the above different groups, the linear correlation between the functional imaging results and the representation of 22 abnormal children is 98%, and the fuzzy deviation is only 3.52%, which indicates that functional imaging can be used as the basic judgment basis in improving children’s psychological and behavioral health care and can predict and reasonably prevent children’s potential psychological behavior according to the images.