Research into the visual perception of human emotion has traditionally focused on the facial expression of emotions. Recently researchers have turned to the more challenging field of emotional body language, i.e. emotion expression through body pose and motion. In this work, we approach recognition of basic emotional categories from a computational perspective. In keeping with recent computatio...

King Lear exemplifies two cultures of feeling, the medieval and early modern one. Even though humoral theory lay at heart understanding emotions, there was a sudden change in specific emotions Renaissance England, such as honour an emotional disposition. Emotional expression also changed, since late Middle Ages favoured vehement expression, while England curtailment any affective responses advo...

The Empathy Machine is an interactive installation that augments a visitor’s empathic sense during a social conversation. Empathy is a key component of interpersonal interactions that is often neglected by modern communication technologies. This system uses facial expression recognition to identify the emotional state of a user’s conversation partner. It algorithmically generates emotional musi...

We describe the structure of a Bayesian network designed to monitor the behavior of a user interacting with a conversational computer and use that information to estimate the user’s emotional state. Our model of emotional state uses two discrete dimensions, valence (bad to good) and arousal (calm to excited), to capture the dominant aspects of physical emotional response. Emotion is expressed b...

Early-latency theories of emotional processing state that at least coarse monitoring of the emotional valence (a pleasure-displeasure continuum) of facial expressions should be both rapid and highly automated (LeDoux, 1995; Russell, 1980). Research has largely substantiated early-latency differential processing of emotional versus non-emotional facial expressions; however, the effect of valence...

To analyse the functions of different parts of the prefrontal cortex in emotion, patients with different prefrontal surgical excisions were compared on four measures of emotion: voice and face emotional expression identification, social behaviour, and the subjective experience of emotion. Some patients with bilateral lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) had deficits in voice and face expre...

BACKGROUND There is lack of neuroscientific studies investigating music processing with naturalistic stimuli, and brain responses to real music are, thus, largely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study investigates event-related brain potentials (ERPs), skin conductance responses (SCRs) and heart rate (HR) elicited by unexpected chords of piano sonatas as they were originally arra...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between self-reported pain and psychological well-being of people with dementia (PWD) living in residential long-term care as indicated by displays of observed emotional expression over the daytime period. DESIGN Secondary analysis using repeated measures of self-report and observational data. SETTING AND SUBJECTS A total of 177 PWD were included from 1...

In the context of efforts to regulate emotion during chronic stressors, both dispositional response tendencies (affect intensity, negative and positive expressivity) and stressor-related coping through emotional approach (processing and expressing emotions) are relevant to adjustment. In women with metastatic breast cancer (N = 103), contributions of self-reported emotional processing and expre...