Face perception is considered to be a canonical example of con gurational visual processing. However, not all facial information is equally important when reading facial expressions. The eyes and mouth seem to be crucial, but they seem to have different roles and signi cance. By vary- ing the shape of the mouth, eyes, and other factors, we conducted two experiments: rst, we examined eye movements depending on different facial con gurations and different types of instructions (neutral and emotionally valenced); second, we used the same types of stimuli in a rat- ing task. Our results indicate that the eyes provide a primary impact (when eye xations are mea- sured), which can be explained by the evolutionary need to establish gaze contact, but once facial expressions are observed, the mouth seems to be more signi cant.

Expressions of emotions in minimal face perception stimuli / Šklters, Jurg̒is; ga Zariņa, Lı̄; Ceple, Ilze; Monstvilaite, Alina; Umbraško, Solvita; Bartušē vica, Santa; Pinna, Baingio. - In: I-PERCEPTION. - ISSN 2041-6695. - 15:(2024), pp. 1-35. [10.1177/20416695241291648]

Expressions of emotions in minimal face perception stimuli

Baingio Pinna
Membro del Collaboration Group
2024-01-01

Abstract

Face perception is considered to be a canonical example of con gurational visual processing. However, not all facial information is equally important when reading facial expressions. The eyes and mouth seem to be crucial, but they seem to have different roles and signi cance. By vary- ing the shape of the mouth, eyes, and other factors, we conducted two experiments: rst, we examined eye movements depending on different facial con gurations and different types of instructions (neutral and emotionally valenced); second, we used the same types of stimuli in a rat- ing task. Our results indicate that the eyes provide a primary impact (when eye xations are mea- sured), which can be explained by the evolutionary need to establish gaze contact, but once facial expressions are observed, the mouth seems to be more signi cant.
2024
Expressions of emotions in minimal face perception stimuli / Šklters, Jurg̒is; ga Zariņa, Lı̄; Ceple, Ilze; Monstvilaite, Alina; Umbraško, Solvita; Bartušē vica, Santa; Pinna, Baingio. - In: I-PERCEPTION. - ISSN 2041-6695. - 15:(2024), pp. 1-35. [10.1177/20416695241291648]
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