Four experiments were conducted to evaluate whether focal attention can be guided by an analysis of the emotional expression in a face. Participants searched displays of 7, 11, 15, and 19 schematic faces for the location of a unique face expressing either a positive or a negative emotion located among distractor faces expressing a neutral emotion. The slopes of the search functions for locating...

Background. Many studies have been devoted to the relationship between perception of facial expression and emotional intelligence (EI). As a rule, study this issue involved tasks recognition with stimuli expressing strong basic emotions. However, diX erences in success groups erent levels EI are not always signiY cantly pronounced. Z is may be connected fact, that expressions too easy for subje...

Aim: The research aimed to study and model the emotion-related activity of functional networks within human brain cortex using power spectrum density detrended phase transfer entropy methods. Attention was focused on revealing alterations in cognitive mechanisms, caused by presentation neutral faces as rare stimuli among with either negative or positive expression. Methods: EEG-data recorded du...

In the natural world, faces are not isolated objects but are rather encountered in the context of the whole body. Previous work has studied the perception of combined faces and bodies using behavioural and electrophysiological measurements, but the neural correlates of emotional face-body perception still remain unexplored. Here, we combined happy and fearful faces and bodies to investigate the...

Faces provide information about multiple characteristics like personal identity and emotion. Classical models of face perception postulate separate sub-systems for identity and expression recognition but recent studies have documented emotional contextual influences on recognition of faces. The present study reports three experiments where participants were presented realistic face-body compoun...

This study examines the differences between audio conferencing and traditional face-to-face learning. We investigated whether the characteristics of audio conferencing – media richness (Media Richness Theory, Daft & Lengel, 1984), media naturalness (Media Naturalness Hypothesis, Kock, 2005) and visual anonymity-determine students' learning efficacy, perception, satisfaction, participation, and ...

CONTEXT Autism is a condition of unknown origin with well-documented impairments in social perception and cognition. OBJECTIVE To assess the relevance of the fusiform-amygdala system to the pathophysiology of autism spectrum conditions. DESIGN Cross-sectional case-control study. SETTING University hospital. PARTICIPANTS A total of 27 adults with autism spectrum conditions and 29 age-, s...

Emotional intelligence (EI) has attracted considerable interest amongst both individual differences researchers and those in other areas of psychology who are interested in how EI relates to criteria such as well-being and career success. Both trait (self-report) and ability EI measures have been developed; the focus of this paper is on ability EI. The associations of two new ability EI tests w...