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Similar facial electromyographic responses to faces, voices, and body expressions
- Source :
- Neuroreport, 18(4), 369-72. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2007.
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Abstract
- Observing facial expressions automatically prompts imitation, as can be seen with facial electromyography. To investigate whether this reaction is driven by automatic mimicry or by recognition of the emotion displayed we recorded electromyograph responses to presentations of facial expressions, face-voice combinations and bodily expressions, which resulted from happy and fearful stimuli. We observed emotion-specific facial muscle activity (zygomaticus for happiness, corrugator for fear) for all three stimulus categories. This indicates that spontaneous facial expression is more akin to an emotional reaction than to facial mimicry and imitation of the seen face stimulus. We suggest that seeing a facial expression, an emotional body expression or hearing an emotional tone of voice all activate the affect program corresponding to the emotion displayed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
media_common.quotation_subject
Emotions
Facial Muscles
Electromyography
Stimulus (physiology)
Perception
medicine
Humans
media_common
Human Body
Brain Mapping
Facial expression
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Neuroscience
Expression (mathematics)
Facial Expression
Body language
stomatognathic diseases
Facial muscles
medicine.anatomical_structure
Acoustic Stimulation
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Face
Multivariate Analysis
Voice
Psychology
Facial electromyography
Photic Stimulation
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09594965
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuroreport
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b8e4506220f4f7842b870266d16beb79