Perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion between dogs and humans.

ABSTRACT: Facial expressions are a core component of the emotional response of social mammals. In contrast to Darwin's original proposition, expressive facial cues of emotion appear to have evolved to be species-specific. Faces trigger an automatic perceptual process, and so, inter-specific emotion perception is potentially a challenge; since observers should not try to "read" heterospecific facial expressions in the same way that they do conspecific ones. Using dynamic spontaneous facial expression stimuli, we report the first inter-species eye-tracking study on fully unrestrained participants and without pre-experiment training to maintain attention to stimuli, to compare how two different species living in the same ecological niche, humans and dogs, perceive each other's facial expressions of emo

SUBMITTER: Correia-Caeiro C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181561 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature