The Influence of Key Facial Features on Recognition of Emotion in Cartoon Faces.

ABSTRACT: Cartoon faces are widely used in social media, animation production, and social robots because of their attractive ability to convey different emotional information. Despite their popular applications, the mechanisms of recognizing emotional expressions in cartoon faces are still unclear. Therefore, three experiments were conducted in this study to systematically explore a recognition process for emotional cartoon expressions (happy, sad, and neutral) and to examine the influence of key facial features (mouth, eyes, and eyebrows) on emotion recognition. Across the experiments, three presentation conditions were employed: (1) a full face; (2) individual feature only (with two other features concealed); and (3) one feature concealed with two other features presented. The cartoon face images

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8382696 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature