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Record W2044816271 · doi:10.1167/11.11.601

Neural Coding of Facial Emotions in the Human Brain

2011· article· en· W2044816271 on OpenAlexaff
Fraser Smith, Melvyn A. Goodale

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Vision · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFace Recognition and Perception
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCategorizationFacial expressionUnivariateBrain activity and meditationPattern recognition (psychology)PsychologyPerceptionComputer scienceClassifier (UML)Artificial intelligenceCognitive psychologyElectroencephalographyMultivariate statisticsNeuroscienceMachine learning

Abstract

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A distributed network of brain regions have previously been implicated in the neural processing of facial emotions (see Fusar-Polli et al., 2009). Such studies primarily used univariate methods of analysis; however, multivariate approaches allow new questions to be asked regarding the neural codes underlying categorization of facial emotions (e.g. Raizada & Kriegeskorte, 2009). Here we employed multivariate pattern analysis to investigate two questions concerning the neural coding of facial expressions: 1) do occipito-temporal brain regions contain emotion specific activity patterns? 2) If so, how do such activity patterns relate to perceptual categorization? We presented participants with each of the six basic facial expressions (plus neutral) in a block design while concurrently recording the fMRI BOLD signal. We trained a linear pattern classifier to discriminate the brain activity patterns generated by each expression. Voxels input to the classifier were selected from occipito-temporal regions that had high sensitivity to visual stimulation in an independent set of data. Significant decoding of facial emotions was found in each participant tested. Moreover, the errors in the neural classification of emotions significantly correlated with the errors made in a completely independent behavioral categorization experiment (that of Smith & Schyns, 2009). Thus information pertinent to perceptual categorization of facial emotions is present throughout occipito-temporal cortex.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.145
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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