Emotion recognition runs through the whole process of individual
development, which grows rapidly particularly in early childhood. This paper starts
from the emotional nonverbal information, combs children recognize emotional facial
expressions and posture expression development characteristics, influence factors,
research paradigm and carries on the outlook for the future research, put forward the
future research should focus on establishing a relatively perfect nonverbal information
warehouse, taking dynamic expression as experimental material, expanding children’s
emotional dimension of nonverbal information identification study, and carrying out
the neural mechanisms such as EEG, eye movement and physiology signals, to achieve
the purpose to promote the development of emotion recognition ability.