Mapping the emotional face. How individual face parts contribute to successful emotion recognition.

ABSTRACT: Which facial features allow human observers to successfully recognize expressions of emotion? While the eyes and mouth have been frequently shown to be of high importance, research on facial action units has made more precise predictions about the areas involved in displaying each emotion. The present research investigated on a fine-grained level, which physical features are most relied on when decoding facial expressions. In the experiment, individual faces expressing the basic emotions according to Ekman were hidden behind a mask of 48 tiles, which was sequentially uncovered. Participants were instructed to stop the sequence as soon as they recognized the facial expression and assign it the correct label. For each part of the face, its contribution to successful recognition was computed,

SUBMITTER: Wegrzyn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426715 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature