Frontiers
Browse
Video_7_Recognition of Emotions From Facial Point-Light Displays.MP4 (298.54 kB)

Video_7_Recognition of Emotions From Facial Point-Light Displays.MP4

Download (298.54 kB)
media
posted on 2020-06-04, 04:38 authored by Christel Bidet-Ildei, Arnaud Decatoire, Sandrine Gil

Facial emotion recognition occupies a prominent place in emotion psychology. How perceivers recognize messages conveyed by faces can be studied in either an explicit or an implicit way, and using different kinds of facial stimuli. In the present study, we explored for the first time how facial point-light displays (PLDs) (i.e., biological motion with minimal perceptual properties) can elicit both explicit and implicit mechanisms of facial emotion recognition. Participants completed tasks of explicit or implicit facial emotion recognition from PLDs. Results showed that point-light stimuli are sufficient to allow facial emotion recognition, be it explicit and implicit. We argue that this finding could encourage the use of PLDs in research on the perception of emotional cues from faces.

History