The Delaware Pain Database: a set of painful expressions and corresponding norming data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Facial expressions of pain serve an essential social function by communicating suffering and soliciting aid. Accurate visual perception of painful expressions is critical because the misperception of pain signals can have serious clinical and social consequences. Therefore, it is essential that researchers have access to high-quality, diverse databases of painful expressions to better understand accuracy and bias in pain perception.

Objectives

This article describes the development of a large-scale face stimulus database focusing on expressions of pain.

Methods

We collected and normed a database of images of models posing painful facial expressions. We also characterized these stimuli in terms of the presence of a series of pain-relevant facial action uni

SUBMITTER: Mende-Siedlecki P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7587421 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature