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Perceiving emotions in faces and abstract artworks: evidence for simultaneous emotion priming and adaptation| old_uid | 4411 |
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| title | Perceiving emotions in faces and abstract artworks: evidence for simultaneous emotion priming and adaptation |
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| start_date | 2008/03/25 |
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| schedule | 18h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | How are our emotional judgments of faces influenced by previous experience? There is conflicting evidence about whether seeing an emotional face positively primes a subsequently viewed face to be perceived as showing the same emotion or, rather, that face adaptation biases perception towards the opposite emotion. We found evidence for both positive priming and for adaptation after-effects for faces
varying along the happy/sad continuum. Face adaptation was strongest when viewpoint and local features were matched by using ?morphed? stimuli, while positive priming was the more powerful determinant for dissimilar faces, particularly when shown briefly. The hypothesis that emotion priming occurs at a more general level than adaptation after-effects was supported by the finding of positive priming between
faces and images of abstract paintings. These results suggest that perception of facial emotion involves both a face-specific mechanism and a more general emotion system that may be critical for empathy and for artistic expression. |
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| responsibles | Duong, Kapoula |
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