Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonconscious Mimicry: History, Applications, and Theoretical and Methodological Innovations

Farley, Sally D.

doi:10.1007/s10919-019-00323-0

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“…Whereas this might appear to contradict the view that cognition and emotional meaning is grounded in sensorimotor processes, there is research suggesting that facial simulation does not always relate to or occur in emotion processing tasks (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019). Various routes to emotion processing have been shown to play a role in detecting and grasping emotional concepts (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019;de la Rosa et al 2018;Stel 2016). In the present study such routes pertain to visual information, auditory information, semantic information as well as previous knowledge on emotion concepts.…”

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“…The fact that contextual support did not lead to differences in facial mimicry suggests that, at least in the current study design, contextual information is not automatically reflected in facial mimicry. Whereas this might appear to contradict the view that cognition and emotional meaning is grounded in sensorimotor processes, there is research suggesting that facial simulation does not always relate to or occur in emotion processing tasks (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019). Various routes to emotion processing have been shown to play a role in detecting and grasping emotional concepts (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019;de la Rosa et al 2018;Stel 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Often, emotional processing is accompanied by context (e.g. Arnold and Winkielman 2019;Aviezer et al 2017;Feldman Barrett et al 2011;Mermillod et al 2018) that can support the identification of emotionality of target information. For instance, consider a common read-aloud setting in which a child is taught to read a book.…”

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“…Accurately detecting emotion-related information is an important ability for successful human interaction. Grounded in the embodied cognition view of social information processing (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019;Niedenthal 2007;Niedenthal et al 2005), in numerous emotion processing studies, both written words as well as facial expressions have been shown to trigger a simulation process that sometimes is reflected in facial muscle activity (e.g., Foroni and Semin 2009;Niedenthal 2007). Especially the simulation of facial expressions involves cortical processing related to motor simulation of facial expressions, the posterior cingulate cortex, and medial temporal lobe structures (Schilbach et al 2008).…”

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“…One of the main current ideas about the occurrence of facial simulation is that it serves a social function and that its occurrence depends on the social context within which stimuli are perceived (e.g., Hess and Fischer 2014). Moreover, recent views within the embodied cognition framework suggest that facial simulation can be important when emotion understanding is more complex (e.g., Arnold and Winkielman 2019;Winkielman et al 2015Winkielman et al , 2018. Some studies report the occurrence of facial mimicry as a mere response to the valence of stimuli, while not necessarily relating to emotion understanding or recognition (e.g., Blom et al 2019).…”

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Perceiving emotions in visual stimuli: social verbal context facilitates emotion detection of words but not of faces

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Building on the notion that processing of emotional stimuli is sensitive to context, in two experimental tasks we explored whether the detection of emotion in emotional words (task 1) and facial expressions (task 2) is facilitated by social verbal context. Three different levels of contextual supporting information were compared, namely (1) no information, (2) the verbal expression of an emotionally matched word pronounced with a neutral intonation, and (3) the verbal expression of an emotionally matched word pronounced with emotionally matched intonation. We found that increasing levels of supporting contextual information enhanced emotion detection for words, but not for facial expressions. We also measured activity of the corrugator and zygomaticus muscle to assess facial simulation, as processing of emotional stimuli can be facilitated by facial simulation. While facial simulation emerged for facial expressions, the level of contextual supporting information did not qualify this effect. All in all, our findings suggest that adding emotional-relevant voice elements positively influence emotion detection.

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Facial emotion detection in Vestibular Schwannoma patients with and without facial paresis

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This study investigates whether there exist differences in facial emotion detection accuracy in patients suffering from Vestibular Schwannoma (VS) due to their facial paresis. Forty-four VS patients, half of them with, and half of them without a facial paresis, had to classify pictures of facial expressions as being emotional or non-emotional. The visual information of images was systematically manipulated by adding different levels of visual noise. The study had a mixed design with emotional expression (happy vs. angry) and visual noise level (10% to 80%) as repeated measures and facial paresis (present vs. absent) and degree of facial dysfunction as between subjects' factors. Emotion detection accuracy declined when visual information declined, an effect that was stronger for anger than for happy expressions. Overall, emotion detection accuracy for happy and angry faces did not differ between VS patients with or without a facial paresis, although exploratory analyses suggest that the ability to recognize emotions in angry facial expressions was slightly more impaired in patients with facial paresis. The findings are discussed in the context of the effects of facial paresis on emotion detection, and the role of facial mimicry, in particular, as an important mechanism for facial emotion processing and understanding.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonconscious Mimicry: History, Applications, and Theoretical and Methodological Innovations

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Perceiving emotions in visual stimuli: social verbal context facilitates emotion detection of words but not of faces

Perceiving emotions in visual stimuli: social verbal context facilitates emotion detection of words but not of faces

Performance Consequences of Workplace Ostracism

Facial emotion detection in Vestibular Schwannoma patients with and without facial paresis

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