Neural correlates of text-based emoticons: a preliminary fMRI study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Like nonverbal cues in oral interactions, text-based emoticons, which are textual portrayals of a writer's facial expressions, are commonly used in electronic device-mediated communication. Little is known, however, about how text-based emoticons are processed in the human brain. With this study, we investigated whether the text-based emoticons are processed as face expressions using fMRI.

Methods

During fMRI scan, subjects were asked to respond by pressing a button, indicating whether text-based emoticons represented positive or negative emotions. Voxel-wise analyses were performed to compare the responses and contrasted with emotional versus scrambled emoticons and among emoticons with different emotions. To explore processing strategies for text-based emotico

SUBMITTER: Kim KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980471 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature