Recognition advantage of happy faces in extrafoveal vision: Featural and affective processing

Calvo, Manuel G.; Nummenmaa, Lauri; Avero, Pedro

doi:10.1080/13506285.2010.481867

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“…Priming studies suggest that affective information along the valence dimension is obtained automatically from facial expressions (Aguado, García-Gutiérrez, Castañeda, & Saugar, 2007;Calvo, Fernández-Martín, & Nummenmaa, 2012;Calvo, Nummenmaa, & Avero, 2010;Carroll & Young, 2005;Lipp et al, 2009;McLellan, Johnston, Dalrymple-Alford, & Porter, 2010;Sassi, Campoy, Castillo, Inuggi, & Fuentes, 2014). Although some studies did not analyse the effects separately for each basic expression (Aguado et al, 2007;Carroll & Young, 2005), Lipp et al (2009) reported affective priming for happy, angry, fearful and sad faces, at 300-ms prime-probe onset asynchrony (SOA): affective evaluation of pleasant probe words was faster after happy than after angry, sad and fearful faces, whereas evaluation of unpleasant probes was slower after happy faces.…”

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Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

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Nummenmaa

2015

Cognition and Emotion

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Facial expressions of emotion involve a physical component of morphological changes in a face and an affective component conveying information about the expresser's internal feelings. It remains unresolved how much recognition and discrimination of expressions rely on the perception of morphological patterns or the processing of affective content. This review of research on the role of visual and emotional factors in expression recognition reached three major conclusions. First, behavioral, neurophysiological, and computational measures indicate that basic expressions are reliably recognized and discriminated from one another, albeit the effect may be inflated by the use of prototypical expression stimuli and forced-choice responses. Second, affective content along the dimensions of valence and arousal is extracted early from facial expressions, although this coarse affective representation contributes minimally to categorical recognition of specific expressions. Third, the physical configuration and visual saliency of facial features contribute significantly to expression recognition, with "emotionless" computational models being able to reproduce some of the basic phenomena demonstrated in human observers. We conclude that facial expression recognition, as it has been investigated in conventional laboratory tasks, depends to a greater extent on perceptual than affective information and mechanisms.

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Section: Affective Processing and Fac-ial Expression Recognitionmentioning

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Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

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Nummenmaa

2015

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“…Recent studies investigating happiness recognition highlight an advantage for happy faces compared to other facial expressions (Calvo & Lundqvist, 2008;Calvo, Nummenma, & Avero, 2010). …”

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Ambiguous emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: The role of expression intensity

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Rivolta

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The nal publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0153-y Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Running title: Ambiguous emotions recognition in TLE.Ambiguous emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: the role of expression intensity. AbstractThe lateralization of emotion processing is currently debated and may be further explored by examining facial expression recognition (FER) impairments in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE).Furthermore, in individuals with TLE there is debate whether FER deficits are more pronounced in right than left. To shed light on this issue, individuals with TLE were tested with a FER task designed to be more sensitive than those classically used. Twenty-five right and thirty-two left TLE patients, candidates for surgery, and controls underwent a FER task composed of stimulishown not only at full blown intensities (100%) but also morphed to display lower intensity levels (35%, 50%, 75%). Results show that, compared to controls, right TLE patients show deficits in the recognition of all emotional categories. Furthermore, when considering valence, right TLE patients are impaired only in negative emotions recognition, but no deficits for positive emotions have been highlighted in left TLE patients. Finally, only right TLE patients impairment was found to be related to the age of epilepsy onset. Our work demonstrates that FER deficits in TLE span across multiple emotional categories and manifest depending on the laterality of the epileptic focus. Taken together our findings provide strongest evidence for the Right Hemisphere Model, but also partial support for Valence Model. We suggest that actual models are not exhaustive to explain emotional processing cerebral control and that further multistep models should be developed.

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“…Second, saccade latencies and velocities were not shorter or faster for happy than for other faces when they were presented individually, and saccades were not guided or cued semantically (Experiment 3). And, third, in a recent unpublished study (Calvo, Nummenmaa, & Avero, 2009), viewers were free to move their eyes while two parafoveal faces (an emotional target face and a scrambled version of it) were presented, followed by a recognition probe. No differences between emotional expressions appeared in the probability or the latency of the first saccade to the target face.…”

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Eye-movement assessment of the time course in facial expression recognition: Neurophysiological implications

Calvo

Nummenmaa

2009

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Recognition advantage of happy faces in extrafoveal vision: Featural and affective processing

Cited by 58 publications

References 39 publications

Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

Ambiguous emotion recognition in temporal lobe epilepsy: The role of expression intensity

Eye-movement assessment of the time course in facial expression recognition: Neurophysiological implications

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