TY - JOUR
T1 - Fashioning the face: sensorimotor simulation contributes to facial expression recognition
AU - Wood, Adrienne
AU - Rychlowska, Magdalena
AU - Korb, Sebastian
AU - Niedenthal, Paula M.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - When we observe a facial expression of emotion, we often mimic it. This automatic mimicry reflects underlying sensorimotor simulation that supports accurate emotion recognition. Why this is so is becoming more obvious: emotions are patterns of expressive, behavioral, physiological, and subjective feeling responses. Activation of one component can therefore automatically activate other components. When people simulate a perceived facial expression, they partially activate the corresponding emotional state in themselves, which provides a basis for inferring the underlying emotion of the expresser. We integrate recent evidence in favor of a role for sensorimotor simulation in emotion recognition. We then connect this account to a domain-general understanding of how sensory information from multiple modalities is integrated to generate perceptual predictions in the brain.
AB - When we observe a facial expression of emotion, we often mimic it. This automatic mimicry reflects underlying sensorimotor simulation that supports accurate emotion recognition. Why this is so is becoming more obvious: emotions are patterns of expressive, behavioral, physiological, and subjective feeling responses. Activation of one component can therefore automatically activate other components. When people simulate a perceived facial expression, they partially activate the corresponding emotional state in themselves, which provides a basis for inferring the underlying emotion of the expresser. We integrate recent evidence in favor of a role for sensorimotor simulation in emotion recognition. We then connect this account to a domain-general understanding of how sensory information from multiple modalities is integrated to generate perceptual predictions in the brain.
U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2015.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2015.12.010
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 227
EP - 240
JO - Trends In Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends In Cognitive Sciences
SN - 1364-6613
IS - 3
ER -