Baby FACS Lecture
Dr. Harriet Oster Lecture: The Nature and Measurement of Infant Facial Expressions
Dr. Harriet Oster Lecture: The Nature and Measurement of Infant Facial Expressions
Monday, 11th October: 17h30
Duration: 45 min
OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
· Theoretical and Methodological Issues
· The importance of emotion in early development
· Traditional Models of Development: Differentiation vs. Discrete Emotion Theories
· An alternative, Ontogenetic Perspective
· The advantages of a comprehensive, anatomically based coding system
· The basic repertoire of infant facial expressions
· Research with Baby FACS
· Cross-cultural studies
· Research on infants in pediatric and clinically at risk populations
· Research on toddler’s emotional expressions in challenging situations
Baby FACS Workshop (12-15th October)
Tuesday 12th October: 10h30-13h00
· Infant-Adult Differences in Facial Morphology and Facial Movement
· Embryological development of facial muscles and facial nerve innervation
· Effects of morphological differences on appearance changes produced by muscle actions
· Overview of modifications of FACS AUs and coding requirements for infant faces
· Intensity Scoring
· Problems commonly encountered in coding infant facial expressions
Tuesday 12th October: 14h30-17h00
· Appearance Changes in Upper Face Actions
· Brow knitting and lowering: distinguishing Baby FACS AU 3 (brow knitting) from AU 4 (brow knotting and lowering)
· Brow raising (AUs 1, 2, 1+2)
· Combinations of AUs 3 and/or 4 with AUs 1 and/or 2
· Eyelid and upper cheek movements: AUs 5, 7, and 6; combinations with brow movements
· Eye closing and upper eyelid drooping: AU 43
· Blinking and winking: AUs 45 and 46
· Head movements and direction of gaze
Wednesday 13th October: 10h30-13h00
· Appearance Changes in Lower Face Actions
· Up-Down Actions: AUs 9, 10, 15, 17, and lip-mouth opening, AUs 25, 26, 27
· Horizontal Actions: AUs 20 and 14
· Oblique Actions: AUs 11, 12, and 13
Wednesday 13th October: 14h30-17h00
· Appearance Changes in Lower Face Actions, continued
· Orbital Actions: AUs 18, 22, 23, 24, and 28
· Miscellaneous Actions and Additions to Baby FACS (tongue positions-shapes, infant reflexes)
Thursday 14th October: 10h30-13h00
· Distinctive Infant Facial Expressions
· Facial expressions related to sensory information processing, cognitive processes, and adaptive responses to the environment
· Taste-related facial expressions
· Smiling: variants and intensities of smiles; Baby FACS matrices
· Cry faces; variants and intensities of cry faces
· Pre-cry expressions and modulated negative expressions related to emotion regulation
· The question of “blends”
Thursday 14th October: 14h30-17h00
· Special problems: Describing cultural, group, and individual differences
· Similarities and difference across cultures
· Atypical infants: modifications for preterm infants, infants with facial anomalies and Down syndrome, blind infants, etc.
· Measurement and analysis strategies
· Unitizing behavior
· Analyzing full-face configurations (putting the face back together)
Friday 15th October: 10h30-13h00
· Review and brief proficiency quiz
· Illustrations from participants’ studies
· Discussion of participants’ projects
End of workshop & Workshop lunch
Friday 15th October Afternoon
Group trip social event
