Where do we gaze at the face to recognize facial expressions?:

Gaze Analytics: where do we stand?

Analytics and big data are the new hit in learning technologies. Expectations for effective support of learning are rising with the advent of MOOCs and the combination of massive data and artificial intelligence techniques. This recent approach to support learning resembles what online companies do to build increasingly precise customer profiles and recommendation systems. Are such approaches v...

How Do We Recognize a Face?

How individual faces are encoded by neurons in high-level visual areas has been a subject of active debate. An influential model is that neurons encode specific faces. However, Chang and Tsao conclusively show that, instead, these neurons encode features along specific axes, which explains why they were previously found to respond to apparently different faces.

Perception and Emotion How We Recognize Facial Expressions

Perception and emotion interact, as is borne out by studies of how people recognize emotion from facial expressions. Psychological and neurological research has elucidated the processes, and the brain structures, that participate in facial emotion recognition. Studies have shown that emotional reactions to viewing faces can be very rapid and that these reactions may, in turn, be used to judge t...

The Battle Against COVID-19: Where Do We Stand Now?

Do we recognize facial expressions of emotions from persons with schizophrenia?

OBJECTIVES Impaired facial emotion expression is central to schizophrenia. Extensive work has quantified these differences, but it remains unclear how patient expressions are perceived by their healthy peers and other non-trained individuals. This study examined how static facial expressions of posed and evoked emotions of patients and controls are recognized by naïve observers. METHODS Facia...