There has been much research on sex differences in the ability to recognise facial expressions of emotions, with results generally showing a female advantage in reading emotional expressions from the face. However, most of the research to date has used static images and/or 'extreme' examples of facial expressions. Therefore, little is known about how expression intensity and dynamic stimuli mig...

Face-selective regions in the amygdala and posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) are strongly implicated in the processing of transient facial signals, such as expression. Here, we measured neural responses in participants while they viewed dynamic changes in facial expression. Our aim was to explore how facial expression is represented in different face-selective regions. Short movies were...

Emotion primitive descriptions are an important alternative to classical emotion categories for describing a human’s affective expressions. We build a multi-dimensional emotion space composed of the emotion primitives of valence, activation, and dominance. In this study, an image-based, text-free evaluation system is presented that provides intuitive assessment of these emotion primitives, and ...

As technology advances, robots and virtual agents will be introduced into the home and healthcare settings to assist individuals, both young and old, with everyday living tasks. Understanding how users recognize an agent's social cues is therefore imperative, especially in social interactions. Facial expression, in particular, is one of the most common non-verbal cues used to display and commun...

to name a few. Because of its importance to the study of emotion, a number of observer-based systems of facial expression measurement have been developed Using FACS and viewing video-recorded facial behavior at frame rate and slow motion, coders can manually code nearly all possible facial expressions, which are decomposed into action units (AUs). Action units, with some qualifications , are th...

THIS ESSAY IS ABOUT the relation between the expression and the arousal of emotion by music. I am assuming that music frequently expresses emotional qualities and qualities of human personality such as sadness, nobility, aggressiveness, tenderness, and serenity. I am also assuming that music frequently affects us emotionally: it evokes or arouses emotions in us. My question is whether there is ...

Emotion plays an important role in human communications. We construct a framework for multi-modal fusion emotion recognition. Facial expression features and speech features are respectively extracted from image sequences and speech signals. In order to locate and track facial feature points, we construct an Active Appearance Model for facial images with all kinds of expressions. Facial Animatio...

Maladaptive emotion regulation and dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning are characteristic of depression and anxiety. However, little research examines whether and how emotion regulation affects HPA axis functioning. We utilized an experience sampling methodology to examine associations between three emotion regulation strategies (problem solving, disengagement, an...

This paper introduces a model of user-agent and inter-agent interaction that supports basic features of affective communication. As essential requirements for animated agents’ capability to engage in social interaction, we motivate reasoning about emotion and emotion expression, personality, and social role awareness. A (rather standard) appraisal program is employed to derive the agent’s emoti...

This paper introduces a model of user-agent and interagent interaction that supports basic features of affective communication. As essential requirements for animated agents’ capability to engage in social interaction, we motivate reasoning about emotion and emotion expression, personality, and social role awareness. A (rather standard) appraisal program is employed derive the agent’s emotional...