Recognition of facial expressions is influenced by emotional scene gist

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Recognition of facial expressions has traditionally been investigated by presenting facial expressions without any context information...influence the explicit recognition of facial expressions. In three experiments, participants...

Grin and share it; Our facial expressions are inherited, say scientists.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 17, 2006 ;     525 words ......wrinkling her nose. Scientists believe facial expressions are handed down from generation to...researchers said their study proves facial expressions must be encoded in genetics, rather...understanding of how and why certain facial expressions have evolved. They may even shed...

Facial expressions are inherited

The Hindustan Times;  October 18, 2006 ;     203 words ...London, Oct 18 -- The facial expressions that we exhibit when we...Haifa, Israel, analysed the facial expressions of 21 volunteers who had...relatives' faces, their facial expressions were extremely alike. "We...

Memory for facial expressions: The power of a smile

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......were presented at study. Memory for facial expressions was tested by presenting the same...source monitoring, in which memory for facial expressions reflects encoding of the dispositional...smile, a frown, a surprised look-such facial expressions convey powerful socio-emotional ...

To Capture a Face: A Novel Technique for the Analysis and Quantification...

Sign Language Studies;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......research has increasingly focused upon facial expressions in ASL and their syntactic significance...In addition to these grammatical facial expressions and the full range of emotional facial expressions, which Ekman and Friesen (1975...

Facial Morphology and Children's Categorization of Facial Expressions of...

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Canadian children categorize pictures of facial expressions of basic emotions. The pictures were...selected from the Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion set developed by D. Matsumoto...with short stories and an array of facial expressions, and were asked to point to ...

Facial expressions of emotion (KDEF): Identification under different...

Behavior Research Methods;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Participants judged which of seven facial expressions (neutrality, happiness, anger, sadness...psychonomic.org/archive/. Faces and facial expressions of emotion are special types of stimuli...automatic perception of affective facial expressions (Stenberg, Wiking, & Dabi, 1998...

Categorical perception of facial expressions: Evidence for a "category...

Memory & Cognition;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of categorical perception (CP) for facial expressions. A model based on naming alone failed...interval selectively removed CP for facial expressions, under blocked, but not under randomized...Demonstrations of CP for morphed facial expressions (Etcoff & Magee, 1992; Calder...

I know how you feel: Task-irrelevant facial expressions are spontaneously...

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......involuntarily mimic specific facial expressions, are influenced by the valence...from their body posture, facial expressions, and movement, to respond...appropriately (Darwin, 1872/1998). Facial expressions of basic emotions are recognized...

UC-Berkeley professor studies facial expressions as gateway to emotions

University Wire;  April 6, 2005 ;     665 words ......Paul Eckman, a pioneering expert on facial expressions, while he was doing post-graduate...easier said than done. To study facial expressions, Keltner videotapes people's facial expressions under various circumstances. But...

Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentum

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......observed short morphing animations of facial expressions from neutral to one of the six basic...the RM effect emerged for dynamic facial expressions of emotion: The last images of dynamic...face, dynamic changes in emotional facial expressions indicate current mood and moment...

Children's knowledge of facial expressions of emotions: distinguishing...

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......of children to impute meaning to facial expressions of emotions emerges very early in...behavior that is modulated by the facial expressions of his or her caregiver (Klinnert...emotional states. The ability to relate facial expressions to discrete emotional states emerges...

Your mother's smile; Facial characteristics.(Facial expressions can be...

The Economist (US);  October 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......babies are born able to recognise the facial expressions of others. His first child had suddenly...Darwin's argument for the inheritance of facial expressions is gaining credence, most recently...what can be learnt about forming facial expressions from what is genetically ...

The effects of orientation on detection and identification of facial...

British Journal of Psychology;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......process involved in the perception of facial expressions of emotion can inform models of perceptual...might think that the decoding of facial expressions of emotion would be more dependent...processing also applies to the analysis of facial expressions of emotions. The processing of ...

Stroke victims are best judges of a liar

The Independent - London;  May 11, 2000 ;     265 words ......discovered. Stroke victims who have suffered damage to the brain's language centres learn how to detect the subtle facial expressions that can indicate when a person is lying. Tests on a group of aphasics - people who cannot converse after...