We can often tell what someone is feeling from their tone of voice or facial expression.

How do we learn to do this?
How do we learn to express our emotions non-verbally?
How are these abilities represented in our brain?
How do these skills relate to our well-being?

The DSEC Lab explores how emotional communication abilities develop in children and adolescents.

We are interested in…

We are continuing ongoing studies and pursuing questions related to..

• Developmental change in neural response and social attention to emotional expressions

• Biological, social, and cognitive mechanisms supporting the growth of emotion recognition skills in youth

• Changes in adolescents’ nonverbal expressions of emotion over time and in different social contexts

This work is or has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies.