Emotional Actions Are Coded via Two Mechanisms: With and without Identity Representation.

ABSTRACT: Accurate perception of an individual's identity and emotion derived from their actions and behavior is essential for successful social functioning. Here we determined the role of identity in the representation of emotional whole-body actions using visual adaptation paradigms. Participants adapted to actors performing different whole-body actions in a happy and sad fashion. Following adaptation subsequent neutral actions appeared to convey the opposite emotion. We demonstrate two different emotional action aftereffects showing distinctive adaptation characteristics. For one short-lived aftereffect, adaptation to the emotion expressed by an individual resulted in biases in the perception of the expression of emotion by other individuals, indicating an identity-independent representation of e

SUBMITTER: Wincenciak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4862987 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature