I feel your fear: shared touch between faces facilitates recognition of fearful facial expressions.

Shared Multisensory Stimulation between Faces Facilitates Recognition of Fearful Facial Expressions

Use of 3D faces facilitates facial expression recognition in children

This study assessed whether presenting 3D face stimuli could facilitate children's facial expression recognition. Seventy-one children aged between 3 and 6 participated in the study. Their task was to judge whether a face presented in each trial showed a happy or fearful expression. Half of the face stimuli were shown with 3D representations, whereas the other half of the images were shown as 2...

Observed Touch on a Non-Human Face Is Not Remapped onto the Human Observer's Own Face

Visual remapping of touch (VRT) is a phenomenon in which seeing a human face being touched enhances detection of tactile stimuli on the observer's own face, especially when the observed face expresses fear. This study tested whether VRT would occur when seeing touch on monkey faces and whether it would be similarly modulated by facial expressions. Human participants detected near-threshold tact...

Neural Responses to Rapid Facial Expressions of Fear and Surprise

Facial expression recognition is mediated by a distributed neural system in humans that involves multiple, bilateral regions. There are six basic facial expressions that may be recognized in humans (fear, sadness, surprise, happiness, anger, and disgust); however, fearful faces and surprised faces are easily confused in rapid presentation. The functional organization of the facial expression re...

Affective blindsight in the intact brain: neural interhemispheric summation for unseen fearful expressions.

The emotional valence of facial expressions can be reliably discriminated even in the absence of conscious visual experience by patients with lesions to the primary visual cortex (affective blindsight). Prior studies in one such patient (GY) also showed that this non-conscious perception can influence conscious recognition of normally seen emotional faces. Here we report a similar online intera...