Dynamic facial expressions of emotions are discriminated at birth

Dynamic facial expressions of emotions are discriminated at birth

The ability to discriminate between different facial expressions is fundamental since the first stages of postnatal life. The aim of this study is to investigate whether 2-days-old newborns are capable to discriminate facial expressions of emotions as they naturally take place in everyday interactions, that is in motion. When two dynamic displays depicting a happy and a disgusted facial express...

Dynamic evoked facial expressions of emotions in schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE Impaired facial expressions of emotions have been described as characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia. Previous investigations of dynamic facial expressions have reported on global assessment of positive and negative emotion expressions. In this study, we examined facial expression differences based on duration and frequencies of emotion expressions. METHODS 12 persons with stable...

Facial Expressions of Emotions for Virtual Characters

CBR Tagging of Emotions from Facial Expressions

In our current research we use CBR to identify the emotional state of an user during her interaction with a recommender system by analysing pictures of her momentary facial expression. In a previous work [2] we introduced PhotoMood, a CBR system that uses gestures to identify emotions from the user face self-pictures, and presented preliminary experiments analysing only the external mouth conto...

Facial expressions and the regulation of emotions.

In the two decades since contemporary psychologists produced strong evidence confirming Darwin's century-old hypothesis of the innateness and universality of certain facial expressions of emotions, research on expressive behavior has become well established in developmental, social, and personality psychology and in psychophysiology. There are also signs of increased interest in emotions in cli...