Facial motion in the perception of faces and of emotional expression.

Bassili, John N.

doi:10.1037/0096-1523.4.3.373

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“…Bassili (1978) reported greater emotion classification accuracy for full-light compared to point-light facial movements, except for happy expressions. Dittrich (1991) found equivalent emotion recognition performance for point-light face stimuli in which the dots demarcated key facial structures (e.g., eyes, mouth) and those in which the dots were positioned randomly on the face.…”

Section: Evidence For Distinct Contributions Of Form and Motion Informentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures

2007

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Section: Evidence For Distinct Contributions Of Form and Motion Informentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures

2007

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“…Fifth, there is a bias to perceive forward locomotion, at the expense of misinterpreting the underlying form in time-reversed biological motion films (Pavlova et al 2002). Finally, observers can discern various emotional expressions from viewing Johansson faces (Bassili 1978).…”

Section: Human Behavioural Studies Of Biological Motion Perceptionmentioning

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Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion

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Perrett

2003

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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The movements of the faces and bodies of other conspecifics provide stimuli of considerable interest to the social primate. Studies of single cells, field potential recordings and functional neuroimaging data indicate that specialized visual mechanisms exist in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) of both human and non-human primates that produce selective neural responses to moving natural images of faces and bodies. STS mechanisms also process simplified displays of biological motion involving point lights marking the limb articulations of animate bodies and geometrical shapes whose motion simulates purposeful behaviour. Facial movements such as deviations in eye gaze, important for gauging an individual's social attention, and mouth movements, indicative of potential utterances, generate particularly robust neural responses that differentiate between movement types. Collectively such visual processing can enable the decoding of complex social signals and through its outputs to limbic, frontal and parietal systems the STS may play a part in enabling appropriate affective responses and social behaviour.

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“…Moreover, there is now a growing body of psychological research that argues that it is the dynamics of the expression, rather than detailed spatial deformations, that is important in expression recognition. Several researchers [1,2,6,7,8,17] have claimed that the timing of expressions, something that is completely missing from FACS, is a critical parameter in recognizing emotions. This issue was also addressed in the NSF workshops and reports on facial expressions [10,23].…”

Section: Recognition Of Facial Motionmentioning

confidence: 99%