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The Perception and Recognition of Emotions and Facial Expression

2009· article· en· W2529070008 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Vincy Chan

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Undergraduate Life Sciences · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicFace Recognition and Perception
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSadnessPsychologyDisgustFacial expressionCognitive psychologyEmotional expressionSurpriseEmotion classificationPerceptionHappinessAffective scienceAngerSocial psychologyCommunication
DOInot available

Abstract

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The perception of emotions and the recognition of facial expressions play a critical role in social interaction between humans. Faces communicate a great deal of information, including dynamic features, such as an individual’s internal emotional state, and static features, such as a person’s identity. Two major views have evolved from the investigation of how facial expressions are perceived and processed, the discrete category view and the dimensional theory. According to the discrete category view, basic facial expressions convey discrete and specific emotions: anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and sadness. Conversely, the dimensional view suggests that the mental representation of emotional space consists of continuous underlying dimensions in which similar emotions are clustered together while different ones are far apart. While both theories postulate that affective information is resistant to contextual influences, research on this topic has provided reasons to believe that the relationship between facial expressions and their contexts may play an important role in determining the perceived emotion. Similarly, studies looking at the right hemisphere and the fusiform face area (FFA) have led researches to suggest that factors other than the presence of faces, such as experience and training, can also activate the FFA. This review looks at the role of facial expressions in everyday life and the two opposing theories on how facial expressions are perceived and processed in the brain. Specifically, the malleability of emotion perception and face recognition and the brain regions that involved in emotion are explored.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.665
Threshold uncertainty score0.401

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.073
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.241 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
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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Published2009
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