Showing papers by "Lei Wang published in 2002"

Observing emotion in infants: facial expression, body behavior, and rater judgments of responses to an expectancy-violating event.

Abstract: Eleven-month-old European-American, Japanese, and Chinese infants (ns = 23, 21, and 15, respectively) were videotaped during baseline and stimulus episodes of a covert toy-switch procedure. Infants looked longer at the object during the expectancy-violating event (stimulus episode) but did not produce more surprise-related facial expressions. American and Japanese infants produced more bodily stilling during stimulus than baseline, and American infants also produced more facial sobering. Naive raters viewing both episodes could correctly identify the expectancy-violating event. Rater judgments of surprise were significantly related to infants' bodily stilling and facial sobering. Judgments of interest were related to cessation of fussing. Thus, observer judgments of infant emotions can be systematically related to behaviors other than prototypic emotional facial expressions.

Analysis of glucose and lactate in dialysate from hypothalamus of rats after exhausting swimming using microdialysis

Abstract: A microbore flow injection analysis-immobilized enzyme reactor-electrochemical detection (FIA-IMER-ECD) system for glucose and lactate detection was built up. The assays were precise, sensitive and practicable for determination of glucose and lactate levels in hypothalamic dialysate. The method had been used to detect the dynamic changes of glucose and lactate levels during rat exhausting swimming and recovery. The data showed that after exhausting swimming, the concentration of glucose in hypothalamic dialysate that reflected the concentration in the hypothalamic extracellular fluid decreased. The level fell to its nadir at day 1 after the exercise and then went back to the basal level at day 3 after the swimming. However, lactate levels increased to a maximum at day 3 and went back to the basal level at day 5 after the swimming.