Objectives:Impairment in facial emotion recognition and facial emotion discrimination is established findings in autism spectrum disorders(ASD). And children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also experience significant difficulty in recognizing and discriminating facial emotion. this study aimed to investigate the differences in facial emotion recognition and emotion discrim...

The present two-part study assesses how psychopathic traits affect individuals’ ability to process naturalistically elicited, dynamic emotional facial expressions. A new stimulus set of spontaneous, dynamic facial expressions was created by filming participants as they watched emotional video clips, and then validated using the program FaceReader. Faces from this set were then viewed by a secon...

Recognition of facial expressions has traditionally been investigated by presenting facial expressions without any context information. However, we rarely encounter an isolated facial expression; usually, we perceive a person's facial reaction as part of the surrounding context. In the present study, we addressed the question of whether emotional scenes influence the explicit recognition of fac...

Change in a speaker’s emotion is a fundamental component in human communication. Automatic recognition of spontaneous emotion would significantly impact human-computer interaction and emotion-related studies in education, psychology and psychiatry. In this paper, we explore methods for detecting emotional facial expressions occurring in a realistic human conversation setting—the Adult Attachmen...

Individuals with psychopathy present deficits in the recognition of facial emotional expressions. However, the nature and extent of these alterations are not fully understood. Furthermore, available data on the functional neural correlates of emotional face recognition deficits in adult psychopaths have provided mixed results. In this context, emotional face morphing tasks may be suitable for c...

The involvement of facial mimicry in different aspects of human emotional processing is widely debated. However, little is known about relationships between voluntary activation of facial musculature and conscious recognition of facial expressions. To address this issue, we assessed severely motor-disabled patients with complete paralysis of voluntary facial movements due to lesions of the vent...

The most familiar emotional signals consist of faces, voices, and whole-body expressions, but so far research on emotions expressed by the whole body is sparse. The authors investigated recognition of whole-body expressions of emotion in three experiments. In the first experiment, participants performed a body expression-matching task. Results indicate good recognition of all emotions, with fea...

Facial expressions provide valuable information in making judgments about internal emotional states. Evaluation of facial expressions can occur through mimicry processes via the mirror neuron system (MNS) pathway, where a decoder mimics a target’s facial expression and proprioceptive perception prompts emotion recognition. Female participants rated emotional facial expressions when mimicry was ...

Human machine interaction is not as natural as interaction among humans. That is the reason why is not yet possible to completely substitute face-to-face communication by human-machine interaction in spite the theoretical feasibility of such a substitution in several professional areas including education and certain medical branches. To approach the naturalness of face-to-face interaction, mac...