Context Modulation of Facial Emotion Perception Differed by Individual Difference

Context Modulation of Facial Emotion Perception Differed by Individual Difference

BACKGROUND Certain facial configurations are believed to be associated with distinct affective meanings (i.e. basic facial expressions), and such associations are common across cultures (i.e. universality of facial expressions). However, recently, many studies suggest that various types of contextual information, rather than facial configuration itself, are important factor for facial emotion p...

Facial feedback and emotion perception

Visual perception of facial expressions of emotion.

Facial expressions of emotion are produced by contracting and relaxing the facial muscles in our face. I hypothesize that the human visual system solves the inverse problem of production, that is, to interpret emotion, the visual system attempts to identify the underlying muscle activations. I show converging computational, behavioral and imaging evidence in favor of this hypothesis. I detail t...

Stimulus Context in Emotion Perception

We review recent work demonstrating consistent context effects during emotion perception. Visual scenes, voices, bodies, other faces, cultural orientation, and even words shape how emotion is perceived in a face, calling into question the still-common assumption that the emotional state of a person is written on and can be read from the face like words on a page. Incorporating context during em...

Facial emotion perception and schizophrenia symptoms.

AIM Emotion recognition is an important aspect of social interactions. Patients suffering from schizophrenia exhibit some disturbances in affective processing. The aim of the study was the evaluation of facial emotion perception and its relation to the psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia patients. METHODS 102 patients with schizophrenia (F20.0, ICD 10) and 50 healthy volunteers participated i...