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A Neuroscience Perspective on Emotional Development

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In the current chapter, we suggest that a neuroscientific approach provides a valuable perspective to the study of emotional development. We discuss how a neuroscientific approach offers unique contributions to notable practical and theoretical challenges in the study of the development of emotion and emotion regulation. We exemplify these contributions by reviewing the current knowledge on the development of the expression and regulation of fear and anxiety and their associated neural bases. The literature reviewed highlights the fact that a neuroscientific approach situates the study of emotional development in a larger biological and evolutionary framework facilitating the translation of research across species and providing an account for species-typical development as well as individual variation. A neuroscientific approach also provides methods that permit studying emotional development across several levels of analyses, providing information on the similarity and/or differentiation between processes and mechanisms. We also cover literature that exemplifies how a neuroscientific approach can expand our understanding of how constitutional factors and experiences create the brain networks that support the expression and regulation of emotion across development. Finally, we discuss outstanding issues and future directions with the neuroscientific approach to the study of emotional development.

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