Edouard Gentaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2749618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edouard Gentaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edouard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gentaz |
| SIGNATURE | GENTAZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0574-5557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It's never too early to enjoy math (or not)
Acquiring mathematical competence is a complex process that begins in early childhood, long before formal schooling. Even though emotional experiences associated with mathematical activities are theorized to influence motivation, engagement and learning outcomes, research on the emergence of math-related emotions in preschool-aged children remains scarce. The present study investigates whether children aged 4-to-5 years already manifest different…
The developmental changes in emotion recognition from human biological motion by children aged from 4 to 12 years
Most research on the development of emotion recognition has focused on facial expressions, leaving a relative gap in our understanding of how children interpret emotions through body movements. This study examined developmental changes in the ability to recognize basic emotions (joy, anger, fear, and sadness) from human biological motion presented in point-light displays (HBM-PLDs), with particular attention to how these changes vary depending on…
A scientometric review of the scientific literature on child effects on adults
Improving social-emotional abilities in children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities through a person-centred eye-tracking-based training
Recognition of facial expressions of emotions in tactile drawings by blind children, children with low vision and sighted children
In the context of blindness, studies on the recognition of facial expressions of emotions by touch are essential to define the compensatory touch abilities and to create adapted tools on emotions. This study is the first to examine the effect of visual experience in the recognition of tactile drawings of facial expressions of emotions by children with different visual experiences. To this end, we compared the recognition rates of tactile drawings…
The Effect of Screen Habits and Alternative Activities on Tactile Exploration Skills in 6- to 36-Month-Old Toddlers
These findings emphasize the importance of reducing screen time and promoting interactive co-viewing and alternative activities to mitigate the negative effects of screen exposure. Further longitudinal research is needed to determine the long-term impacts of early screen exposure on tactile exploration and overall psychological development
An Eye-Tracking Study on Six Early Social-Emotional Abilities in Children Aged 1 to 3 Years
Our revised experimental paradigm is possible in infants aged 1 to 3 years and thus provides additional scientific proof on the direct assessment of these six socio-emotional abilities in this population
Vis-à-Vis Training” to Improve Emotional and Executive Competences in Very Preterm Children
Overall, our results indicate that the implementation of this type of computerised training is feasible, but the overall compliance is unsatisfactory given the high dropout rate. Nevertheless, the positive effect of the training on emotion recognition encourages further exploration of these kinds of interventions to prevent adverse consequences in children born too soon
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Pretend play-based training improves some socio-emotional competences in 5–6-year-old children
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a pretend play-based training in 5-6-year-old children in a large scale school context on emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, prosocial behaviour and on their pretend play competences. The analysis of implementation variables was carried out in order to ensure program implementation quality in the experimental group. Results show an improvement in emotion comprehension and a decrease i…
Multisensory Texture Perception in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
The sensory profile of people with Williams syndrome (WS) is characterised by atypical visual and auditory perceptions that affect their daily lives and learning. However, no research has been carried out on the haptic perception, in particular in multisensory (visual and haptic) situations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the communication of texture information from one modality to the other in people with WS. Children and adults with WS …
Maternal Voice and Tactile Stimulation Modulate Oxytocin in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother-infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting mother-infant bonding. The release of this hormone might be influenced by either vocal or tactile stimulation. The main objective of the current randomized, crossover, clinical trial was to assess the salivary …
Impact of Innovative Emotion Training in Preschool and Kindergarten Children Aged from 3 to 6 Years
Children's emotional abilities have been shown to be related to academic performance, peer acceptance, and in-school adjustment. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of innovative emotion training designed to promote the emotional abilities of 316 preschool/kindergarten children aged from 3 to 6 years old enrolled in public schools in the first three levels (L1, L2, and L3). Another objective was to examine the transfer eff…
Emotion regulation in blind and visually impaired children aged 3 to 12 years assessed by a parental questionnaire
Emotion regulation develops from the earliest years of a child's life and mostly through visual information. Considering the importance of emotion regulation in daily life situations, it is important to study the effect of visual experience on the development of this ability. This study is the first to examine the effect of visual experience and age in emotion regulation by comparing groups of children with different visual status and age. For th…
Experiences and Attitudes on Early Identification Practices of Autism
Early identification of children with autism is necessary to support their social and communicative skills and cognitive, verbal, and adaptive development. Researchers have identified several barriers to early diagnosis. Data collected in low- and middle-income contexts-where the vast majority of children in the world live-is scarce. In Ecuador, as in many other countries, estimates are lower compared to the global prevalence. Health authorities …
Pourquoi et comment soutenir le développement des compétences émotionnelles chez les élèves âgés de 4 à 7 ans et chez leur enseignant.e ? Apports des sciences cognitives
Apprendre à identifier, exprimer, comprendre, utiliser et réguler ses émotions et celles d’autrui fait partie intégrante des apprentissages fondateurs d’une scolarité réussie. De nombreuses études en sciences cognitives ont montré que ces compétences jouent un rôle crucial dans la réussite des élèves à l’école et favorisent leurs relations interpersonnelles. Dans un premier temps, nous allons examiner dans quelle mesure le développement de ces co…
Sciences cognitives et éducation
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The effects of a 'pretend play-based training' designed to promote the development of emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour in 5- to 6-year-old Swiss children
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pretend play-based training designed to promote the development of socio-emotional competences. 79 children aged 5 to 6 years were evaluated before and after a pretend play-based training. The experimental group (39 children) received this programme on emotion comprehension, negative emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour one hour a week for eleven weeks during class hours, while t…
The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults
The present study examined the evolution of emotional cross-modal transfer throughout childhood compared to adulthood, using an experimental design first used with infants. We studied whether verbal children spontaneously look at emotional faces differently depending on the emotional voices previously heard, demonstrating a real intrinsic understanding of the emotion. Thus, sequences of emotional (happy vs. angry) cross-modal transfer were indivi…
Brief Report
Recent research has consistently demonstrated reduced orienting to social stimuli in samples of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, social orienting greatly varies between individual children on the spectrum. Better understanding this heterogeneity in social orienting may contribute to our comprehension of the mechanisms underlying autistic symptoms thereby improving our ability to intervene. Indeed, children on the auti…
Preference for point-light human biological motion in newborns
In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this preference are still in debate. Using a standard visual preferential looking paradigm, 4 experiments were carried out in 3-day-old human newborns to assess the influence of translational displacement on perception of human locomotion. Experiment 1 shows that human newborns prefer a point-light walker display repr…
Adults and 5‐year‐old children draw rectangles and triangles around a prototype but not in the golden ratio
This study uses a production task to probe the representations of two geometrical shape categories (rectangles and triangles) in adults and children before the onset of geometry instruction. We specifically assessed whether drawings of these shapes would average around a prototype and whether the prototypical side‐length ratio of the shapes would be situated in the range of the ‘golden ratio’, as it has been reported in the perception domain. We …
Comment favoriser l’acquisition de connaissances artistiques par des enfants et leurs intérêts durant une visite guidée à un musée de peinture
Les visites guidées au musée de peinture fournissent une occasion aux enfants d’acquérir des connaissances artistiques. Dans cette recherche, conduite au musée de Grenoble, nous nous interrogeons sur les conditions les plus favorables à cette acquisition
Évaluation d’entraînements multisensoriels de préparation à la reconnaissance de figures géométriques planes chez les enfants de cinq ans
Cette recherche évalue chez trente quatre enfants âgés de cinq ans les effets de l’ajout de la modalité haptique (tactilo-kinesthésique) dans un entraînement destiné à favoriser la reconnaissance visuelle de quatre figures géométriques planes (cercle, carré, rectangle et triangle). Deux entraînements sont évalués. Ils ont en commun de proposer des exercices centrés sur des propriétés de chaque figure, mais ils diffèrent sur les modalités sensorie…
Toucher pour connaître
The effects of a 'pretend play-based training' designed to promote the development of emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour in 5- to 6-year-old Swiss children
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pretend play-based training designed to promote the development of socio-emotional competences. 79 children aged 5 to 6 years were evaluated before and after a pretend play-based training. The experimental group (39 children) received this programme on emotion comprehension, negative emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour one hour a week for eleven weeks during class hours, while t…
Preference for point-light human biological motion in newborns
In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this preference are still in debate. Using a standard visual preferential looking paradigm, 4 experiments were carried out in 3-day-old human newborns to assess the influence of translational displacement on perception of human locomotion. Experiment 1 shows that human newborns prefer a point-light walker display repr…
Role of memorization conditions in the haptic processing of orientations and the ‘oblique effect’
The haptic processing of vertical, horizontal, 45° and 135° oblique orientations was studied in blindfolded sighted adults in an exploration‐reproduction task. The purpose was to determine whether the variations of the memorization conditions between the exploration and reproduction phases would influence the global performance and the oblique effect (lower performance in oblique orientations than in vertical‐horizontal orientations). If orientat…
Toucher pour connaître
Évaluation d’entraînements multisensoriels de préparation à la reconnaissance de figures géométriques planes chez les enfants de cinq ans
Cette recherche évalue chez trente quatre enfants âgés de cinq ans les effets de l’ajout de la modalité haptique (tactilo-kinesthésique) dans un entraînement destiné à favoriser la reconnaissance visuelle de quatre figures géométriques planes (cercle, carré, rectangle et triangle). Deux entraînements sont évalués. Ils ont en commun de proposer des exercices centrés sur des propriétés de chaque figure, mais ils diffèrent sur les modalités sensorie…
Comment favoriser l’acquisition de connaissances artistiques par des enfants et leurs intérêts durant une visite guidée à un musée de peinture
Les visites guidées au musée de peinture fournissent une occasion aux enfants d’acquérir des connaissances artistiques. Dans cette recherche, conduite au musée de Grenoble, nous nous interrogeons sur les conditions les plus favorables à cette acquisition
Adults and 5‐year‐old children draw rectangles and triangles around a prototype but not in the golden ratio
This study uses a production task to probe the representations of two geometrical shape categories (rectangles and triangles) in adults and children before the onset of geometry instruction. We specifically assessed whether drawings of these shapes would average around a prototype and whether the prototypical side‐length ratio of the shapes would be situated in the range of the ‘golden ratio’, as it has been reported in the perception domain. We …
Preference for point-light human biological motion in newborns
In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this preference are still in debate. Using a standard visual preferential looking paradigm, 4 experiments were carried out in 3-day-old human newborns to assess the influence of translational displacement on perception of human locomotion. Experiment 1 shows that human newborns prefer a point-light walker display repr…
Brief Report
Recent research has consistently demonstrated reduced orienting to social stimuli in samples of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, social orienting greatly varies between individual children on the spectrum. Better understanding this heterogeneity in social orienting may contribute to our comprehension of the mechanisms underlying autistic symptoms thereby improving our ability to intervene. Indeed, children on the auti…
The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults
The present study examined the evolution of emotional cross-modal transfer throughout childhood compared to adulthood, using an experimental design first used with infants. We studied whether verbal children spontaneously look at emotional faces differently depending on the emotional voices previously heard, demonstrating a real intrinsic understanding of the emotion. Thus, sequences of emotional (happy vs. angry) cross-modal transfer were indivi…
Pourquoi et comment soutenir le développement des compétences émotionnelles chez les élèves âgés de 4 à 7 ans et chez leur enseignant.e ? Apports des sciences cognitives
Apprendre à identifier, exprimer, comprendre, utiliser et réguler ses émotions et celles d’autrui fait partie intégrante des apprentissages fondateurs d’une scolarité réussie. De nombreuses études en sciences cognitives ont montré que ces compétences jouent un rôle crucial dans la réussite des élèves à l’école et favorisent leurs relations interpersonnelles. Dans un premier temps, nous allons examiner dans quelle mesure le développement de ces co…
Sciences cognitives et éducation
utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
The effects of a 'pretend play-based training' designed to promote the development of emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour in 5- to 6-year-old Swiss children
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pretend play-based training designed to promote the development of socio-emotional competences. 79 children aged 5 to 6 years were evaluated before and after a pretend play-based training. The experimental group (39 children) received this programme on emotion comprehension, negative emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour one hour a week for eleven weeks during class hours, while t…
Emotion regulation in blind and visually impaired children aged 3 to 12 years assessed by a parental questionnaire
Emotion regulation develops from the earliest years of a child's life and mostly through visual information. Considering the importance of emotion regulation in daily life situations, it is important to study the effect of visual experience on the development of this ability. This study is the first to examine the effect of visual experience and age in emotion regulation by comparing groups of children with different visual status and age. For th…
Experiences and Attitudes on Early Identification Practices of Autism
Early identification of children with autism is necessary to support their social and communicative skills and cognitive, verbal, and adaptive development. Researchers have identified several barriers to early diagnosis. Data collected in low- and middle-income contexts-where the vast majority of children in the world live-is scarce. In Ecuador, as in many other countries, estimates are lower compared to the global prevalence. Health authorities …
Éduquer avec les neurosciences
Pretend play-based training improves some socio-emotional competences in 5–6-year-old children
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a pretend play-based training in 5-6-year-old children in a large scale school context on emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, prosocial behaviour and on their pretend play competences. The analysis of implementation variables was carried out in order to ensure program implementation quality in the experimental group. Results show an improvement in emotion comprehension and a decrease i…
Multisensory Texture Perception in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
The sensory profile of people with Williams syndrome (WS) is characterised by atypical visual and auditory perceptions that affect their daily lives and learning. However, no research has been carried out on the haptic perception, in particular in multisensory (visual and haptic) situations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the communication of texture information from one modality to the other in people with WS. Children and adults with WS …
Maternal Voice and Tactile Stimulation Modulate Oxytocin in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother-infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting mother-infant bonding. The release of this hormone might be influenced by either vocal or tactile stimulation. The main objective of the current randomized, crossover, clinical trial was to assess the salivary …
Impact of Innovative Emotion Training in Preschool and Kindergarten Children Aged from 3 to 6 Years
Children's emotional abilities have been shown to be related to academic performance, peer acceptance, and in-school adjustment. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of innovative emotion training designed to promote the emotional abilities of 316 preschool/kindergarten children aged from 3 to 6 years old enrolled in public schools in the first three levels (L1, L2, and L3). Another objective was to examine the transfer eff…
Recognition of facial expressions of emotions in tactile drawings by blind children, children with low vision and sighted children
In the context of blindness, studies on the recognition of facial expressions of emotions by touch are essential to define the compensatory touch abilities and to create adapted tools on emotions. This study is the first to examine the effect of visual experience in the recognition of tactile drawings of facial expressions of emotions by children with different visual experiences. To this end, we compared the recognition rates of tactile drawings…
The Effect of Screen Habits and Alternative Activities on Tactile Exploration Skills in 6- to 36-Month-Old Toddlers
These findings emphasize the importance of reducing screen time and promoting interactive co-viewing and alternative activities to mitigate the negative effects of screen exposure. Further longitudinal research is needed to determine the long-term impacts of early screen exposure on tactile exploration and overall psychological development
An Eye-Tracking Study on Six Early Social-Emotional Abilities in Children Aged 1 to 3 Years
Our revised experimental paradigm is possible in infants aged 1 to 3 years and thus provides additional scientific proof on the direct assessment of these six socio-emotional abilities in this population
Vis-à-Vis Training” to Improve Emotional and Executive Competences in Very Preterm Children
Overall, our results indicate that the implementation of this type of computerised training is feasible, but the overall compliance is unsatisfactory given the high dropout rate. Nevertheless, the positive effect of the training on emotion recognition encourages further exploration of these kinds of interventions to prevent adverse consequences in children born too soon
A scientometric review of the scientific literature on child effects on adults
Improving social-emotional abilities in children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities through a person-centred eye-tracking-based training
It's never too early to enjoy math (or not)
Acquiring mathematical competence is a complex process that begins in early childhood, long before formal schooling. Even though emotional experiences associated with mathematical activities are theorized to influence motivation, engagement and learning outcomes, research on the emergence of math-related emotions in preschool-aged children remains scarce. The present study investigates whether children aged 4-to-5 years already manifest different…
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Perception (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (5 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (5 works) · Cognition (5 works)