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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Wee Kiat Lau
Summary: The study found that the impact of face masks on social interactions is not always negative, and masked faces may even be more attractive in certain traits. While face masks may affect the recognition of emotional expressions, they do not significantly impact judgments on other characteristics.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luis F. Gomez, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave
Summary: In this study, machine learning facial expression analysis is used to improve PD detection by utilizing domain adaptation techniques based on action unit domains. The results show that modeling facial expressions using image sequences and applying domain adaptation and triplet-loss functions can significantly improve the accuracy of PD detection.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mikio Inagaki, Tatsuro Ito, Takashi Shinozaki, Ichiro Fujita
Summary: This study investigates the similarities and differences in facial expressions across cultures and uses convolutional neural networks to analyze and classify these expressions. The research finds that there are differences in facial features between databases from different countries, which are related to the selectivity of facial action units.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anthony Stahelski, Amber Anderson, Nicholas Browitt, Mary Radeke
Summary: Facial inferencing research began with an inadvertent confound, investigating the impact of different emotion labels on facial expression inferences. Results indicate that different emotion labels assigned to scowling faces can either intensify or reduce negativity in inferences, with the facial expressions themselves determining negativity or positivity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lillian Dollinger, Petri Laukka, Lennart Bjorn Hogman, Tanja Banziger, Irena Makower, Hakan Fischer, Stephan Hau
Summary: Nonverbal emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) is essential for successful communication, and two different training programs focusing on multimodal expressions and micro expressions respectively were evaluated. Results showed that the training program focusing on multimodal expressions was more effective in improving overall ERA, while the one focusing on micro expressions was more effective in improving micro expression ERA specifically. Transfer effects of the training programs were not observed, and participants with lower baseline ERA showed more improvements.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alessia Verroca, Chiara Maria de Rienzo, Filippo Gambarota, Paola Sessa
Summary: With the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread use of face masks, recognizing emotions from facial expressions has become challenging. This study investigated how wearing masks affects the perception of emotions and the role of individual traits in emotion processing. The findings suggest that face masks increase uncertainty in recognizing emotions and decrease the perceived intensity of subtle expressions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiaoxiao Li
Summary: The study found that bodily expressions elicit more positive brain responses and faster response times, while facial expressions generate more negative brain responses and longer response times. The processing of consistent emotional information and inconsistent emotional information in the brain also differs, with N2 being more sensitive to inconsistent emotional information and P3 being more sensitive to consistent emotional information. The cognitive processing of facial and bodily expressions has distinctive integrating features, with interaction occurring in the early stage (N170). The results highlight the importance of facial and bodily expressions in the cognitive processing of emotion recognition.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Busra Karatay, Deniz Bestepe, Kashfia Sailunaz, Tansel oezyer, Reda Alhajj
Summary: This paper proposes a novel deep neural network framework combining Gaussian mixture model with CNN, LSTM and Transformer for emotion detection from videos and images. The experiments using the FABO and CK+ datasets show that the proposed Transformer model achieves close to 100% classification accuracy on the FABO dataset and over 90% accuracy for most feature combinations on the CK+ dataset, outperforming other DNN frameworks for emotion detection.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Hanlin Ren, Liang Huang, Fangyuan Du, Wenxin Huang, Guoyao Lin, Mariska E. Kret, Shunsen Chen
Summary: The preschool age is a crucial period for the development of children's emotional abilities. This study shows that preschoolers have the ability to accurately match facial and bodily expressions of emotion, and they process bodily expressions of emotion congruent with facial expressions more thoroughly.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Kenn L. Dela Cruz, Caroline M. Kelsey, Xin Tong, Tobias Grossmann
Summary: The current longitudinal study examined maternal facial emotion recognition and infant affect-based attention using eye-tracking at different ages. The results showed consistent maternal responses to angry facial expressions, indicating a trait-like response to social threat among mothers. However, neither maternal responses to happy or fearful facial expressions nor infants' responses to all three facial emotions showed such consistency, suggesting the changeable nature of facial emotion processing, especially in infants. The study also found dynamic changes in infants' attention to negative emotions and limited evidence for developmental continuity in processing negative emotions and the bidirectional interplay of infant affect-biased attention and maternal facial emotion recognition.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Diane Baier, Marleen Kempkes, Thomas Ditye, Ulrich Ansorge
Summary: Two experiments showed that fearful facial expressions do not capture attention in an awareness-independent way, whether as cues or targets.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Daniel N. Albohn, Joseph C. Brandenburg, Kestutis Kveraga, Reginald B. Adams
Summary: Decades of research have shown that contextual information from the body, visual scene, and voices can help in judging facial expressions of emotion. However, most studies have suggested that bodily expressions provide context for interpreting facial expressions, but not the other way around. This research aimed to investigate when mutual processing of facial and bodily displays of emotion can enhance or interfere with emotion recognition. Two studies found strong evidence for integration effects, but not interference. Integration effects were most pronounced when the emotional clarity of facial and bodily expressions was low, indicating that when more information is needed in one channel, the other channel is recruited. This low-level visual integration occurs even with briefly presented, backward-masked stimuli.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zizhao Dong, Gang Wang, Shaoyuan Lu, Jingting Li, Wenjing Yan, Su-Jing Wang
Summary: This paper aims to help more people understand coding by studying the relationship between facial muscle movements, AU coding, and emotions. Through data analysis and professional coders' experience, the relationship between AU and emotions is derived, and the complexity of the facial motor cortical network system is discussed. The paper presents the detailed process of emotion labeling, AU detection, and recognition, and concludes with the coding methods for spontaneous expressions and micro-expressions in videos.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Catia Correia-Caeiro, Kun Guo, Daniel Mills
Summary: Dogs and humans have species-specific differences in emotion perception, with dogs focusing more on the body while humans focus more on the head when viewing emotional expressions. Both species also show a clear age effect, with reduced head gaze as they age. These findings have important implications for managing interactions between humans and dogs.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sen Yan, Catherine Soladie, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Renaud Seguier
Summary: This paper proposes a novel interdisciplinary approach combining Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with psychophysical reverse correlation technique for generating personalized facial expression prototypes, including both basic and non-basic emotions. The method does not rely on large labeled databases and does not require expertise.
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Jan van den Stock
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Beatrice de Gelder, Elizabeth Huis In 't Veldt, Minye Zhan, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: This study investigates a new case of acquired prosopagnosia and finds that the structurally intact FFA retains face selective response despite lesions in the face perception network. At the behavioral level, impaired configural processing for facial identity was observed, but not for other stimulus categories and facial expression recognition. These findings are important for understanding the behavioral and brain basis of face perception.
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Joke De Vocht, Daphne Stam, Marie Nicolini, Nikita Lamaire, Maarten Laroy, Thomas Vande Casteele, Laura van de Vliet, Kristof Vansteelandt, Ann D'Hondt, Louise Emsell, Ronny Bruffaerts, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Philip van Damme, Jan van den Stock
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Laura Van de Vliet, Jiaze Sun, Yun-An Huang, Maarten J. A. Van den Bossche, Stefan Sunaert, Ron Peeters, Qi Zhu, Wim Vanduffel, Beatrice de Gelder, Francois-Laurent De Winter, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: This study investigates the neural integrity of hyperspecialized and domain-general cortical social brain areas in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) by using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results reveal compromised structure and function in hyperspecialized social areas in bvFTD.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Louise Emsell, Heleen Vanhaute, Kristof Vansteelandt, Francois-Laurent De Winter, Danny Christiaens, Jan Van den Stock, Rik Vandenberghe, Koen Van Laere, Stefan Sunaert, Filip Bouckaert, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Summary: Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and hippocampal volume derived from magnetic resonance imaging can serve as useful clinical biomarkers for differentiating geriatric depression from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Hippocampal volume is an important diagnostic predictor for identifying individuals with depression who are at risk for AD, and additional amyloid biomarkers can further improve diagnostic accuracy when available.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Jan Van den Stock, Maxime Bertoux, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Olivier Piguet, Katherine P. Rankin, Florence Pasquier, Simon Ducharme, Yolande Pijnenburg, Fiona Kumfor
Summary: Dodich et al. reviewed the clinical use of social cognition assessment in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and proposed an initiative to address the limitations in their study.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jiaze Sun, Francois-Laurent De Winter, Fiona Kumfor, Daphne Stam, Kristof Vansteelandt, Ron Peeters, Stefan Sunaert, Rik Vandenberghe, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: This study explores the presence of neural functional compensation in the manifest stage of neurodegenerative diseases. The results suggest that compensatory processes can still occur in clinically manifest neurodegeneration, and these processes may operate along nodes in intrinsically connected networks. The findings highlight the potential of using multidimensional neural markers as novel biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Hannah Davidoff, Laura van den Bulcke, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Maarten De Vos, Jan van den Stock, Nick Van Helleputte, Chris Van Hoof, Maarten J. A. van den Bossche
Summary: This article describes a multimodal system design aimed at objectively characterizing agitation in dementia patients by using different types of sensors and a custom-made app, in order to improve understanding and prediction of patient behavior and enable timely intervention.
INNOVATION IN AGING
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Tom S. Roth, Xuejing Du, Iliana Samara, Mariska E. Kret
Summary: Attractiveness influences implicit attention towards faces, but does not seem to extend to gaze cuing.
EVOLUTIONARY BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Jan van den Stock, Chiara Cerami, Alessandra Dodich, Stefano Cappa, Rik Vandenberghe, Francois-Laurent De Winter, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Article
Neurosciences
Daphne Stam, Laura Colman, Kristof Vansteelandt, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: Enhanced memory for negative events has been observed. Eye tracking is used to investigate visual attention for emotional stimuli. Young adults show better memory for angry faces compared to older adults, and fixation duration is a strong predictor for face memory performance.
Review
Clinical Neurology
Daphne Stam, Simon Rosseel, Francois-Laurent De Winter, Maarten J. A. Van den Bossche, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: This study examines deficits in social cognition in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) through qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis of facial expression recognition studies. The results show that both FTD and AD are associated with deficits in facial expression recognition, with FTD having more pronounced deficits compared to AD. Overall emotion recognition was most frequently impaired in both disorders, with anger recognition being most affected in FTD and fear recognition in AD. Verbal categorization was the most commonly used task, but matching or intensity rating tasks may be more specific. Studies from Oceania revealed larger deficits, while non-emotional control tasks were more impacted by AD than FTD. These findings highlight the social cognitive phenotype of FTD and AD and suggest the importance of social cognition assessment in late-life neuropsychiatric disorders.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Margot G. A. Van Cauwenberge, Aline Delva, Thomas Vande Casteele, Maarten Laroy, Ahmed Radwan, Kristof Vansteelandt, Jan Van den Stock, Filip Bouckaert, Koen Van Laere, Louise Emsell, Wim Vandenberghe, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between mild motor signs (MMS) in old age and synaptic density in the brain. The results showed that MMS in healthy aging are associated with lower synaptic density throughout the brain.
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Lies Van Assche, Akihiro Takamiya, Jan van den Stock, Luc van de Ven, Patrick Luyten, Louise Emsell, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Summary: Very-late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) is a psychiatric disorder associated with lower grey matter volume (GMV) in the thalamus, left inferior frontal gyrus, and left insula. Lower thalamic GMV is correlated with memory impairment in this disorder. The findings provide important clues for understanding the neurobiology of VLOSLP.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Neurosciences
Thomas Vande Casteele, Maarten Laroy, Margot Van Cauwenberge, Michel Koole, Patrick Dupont, Stefan Sunaert, Jan Van den Stock, Filip Bouckaert, Koen Van Laere, Louise Emsell, Mathieu Vandenbulcke
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Edna C. Cieslik, Markus Ullsperger, Martin Gell, Simon B. Eickhoff, Robert Langner
Summary: Previous studies on error processing have primarily focused on the posterior medial frontal cortex, but the role of other brain regions has been underestimated. This study used activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to explore brain activity related to committing errors and responding successfully in interference tasks. It was found that the salience network and the temporoparietal junction were commonly involved in both correct and incorrect responses, indicating their general involvement in coping with situations that require increased cognitive control. Error-specific convergence was observed in the dorsal posterior cingulate cortex, posterior thalamus, and left superior frontal gyrus, while successful responding showed stronger convergence in the dorsal attention network and lateral prefrontal regions. Underrecruitment of these regions in error trials may reflect failures in activating the appropriate stimulus-response contingencies necessary for successful response execution.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2024)
