How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition
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- Lea Thomas
- Christoph von Castell
- Heiko Hecht
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- 10.3389/fnins.2022.937939
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- 1662-453X
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- PubMed Identifier: 36213742
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- FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
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- emotion perception
- facial expression recognition
- gaze direction
- head orientation
- face masks
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- ARTN 937939
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- 2022
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- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition
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- <jats:p>The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way we interact with each other: mandatory mask-wearing obscures facial information that is crucial for emotion recognition. Whereas the influence of wearing a mask on emotion recognition has been repeatedly investigated, little is known about the impact on interaction effects among emotional signals and other social signals. Therefore, the current study sought to explore how gaze direction, head orientation, and emotional expression interact with respect to emotion perception, and how these interactions are altered by wearing a face mask. In two online experiments, we presented face stimuli from the Radboud Faces Database displaying different facial expressions (anger, fear, happiness, neutral, and sadness), gaze directions (−13°, 0°, and 13°), and head orientations (−45°, 0°, and 45°) – either without (Experiment 1) or with mask (Experiment 2). Participants categorized the displayed emotional expressions. Not surprisingly, masks impaired emotion recognition. Surprisingly, without the mask, emotion recognition was unaffected by averted head orientations and only slightly affected by gaze direction. The mask strongly interfered with this ability. The mask increased the influence of head orientation and gaze direction, in particular for the emotions that were poorly recognized with mask. The results suggest that in case of uncertainty due to ambiguity or absence of signals, we seem to unconsciously factor in extraneous information.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Lea Thomas
- Christoph von Castell
- Heiko Hecht
- DOI
- 10.3389/fnins.2022.937939
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- 1662-453X
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- Frontiers in Neuroscience
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- 2022
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.937939
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 16
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- Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way we interact with each other: mandatory mask-wearing obscures facial information that is crucial for emotion recognition. Whereas the influence of wearing a mask on emotion recognition has been repeatedly investigated, little is known about the impact on interaction effects among emotional signals and other social signals. Therefore, the current study sought to explore how gaze direction, head orientation, and emotional expression interact with respect to emotion perception, and how these interactions are altered by wearing a face mask. In two online experiments, we presented face stimuli from the Radboud Faces Database displaying different facial expressions (anger, fear, happiness, neutral, and sadness), gaze directions (-13°, 0°, and 13°), and head orientations (-45°, 0°, and 45°) - either without (Experiment 1) or with mask (Experiment 2). Participants categorized the displayed emotional expressions. Not surprisingly, masks impaired emotion recognition. Surprisingly, without the mask, emotion recognition was unaffected by averted head orientations and only slightly affected by gaze direction. The mask strongly interfered with this ability. The mask increased the influence of head orientation and gaze direction, in particular for the emotions that were poorly recognized with mask. The results suggest that in case of uncertainty due to ambiguity or absence of signals, we seem to unconsciously factor in extraneous information.
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- Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- Autoren
- Lea Thomas
- Christoph von Castell
- Heiko Hecht
- DOI
- 10.3389/fnins.2022.937939
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- 1662-453X
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- PubMed Identifier: 36213742
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- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition.
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- Abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way we interact with each other: mandatory mask-wearing obscures facial information that is crucial for emotion recognition. Whereas the influence of wearing a mask on emotion recognition has been repeatedly investigated, little is known about the impact on interaction effects among emotional signals and other social signals. Therefore, the current study sought to explore how gaze direction, head orientation, and emotional expression interact with respect to emotion perception, and how these interactions are altered by wearing a face mask. In two online experiments, we presented face stimuli from the Radboud Faces Database displaying different facial expressions (anger, fear, happiness, neutral, and sadness), gaze directions (-13°, 0°, and 13°), and head orientations (-45°, 0°, and 45°) - either without (Experiment 1) or with mask (Experiment 2). Participants categorized the displayed emotional expressions. Not surprisingly, masks impaired emotion recognition. Surprisingly, without the mask, emotion recognition was unaffected by averted head orientations and only slightly affected by gaze direction. The mask strongly interfered with this ability. The mask increased the influence of head orientation and gaze direction, in particular for the emotions that were poorly recognized with mask. The results suggest that in case of uncertainty due to ambiguity or absence of signals, we seem to unconsciously factor in extraneous information.
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- 2022
- Autoren
- Lea Thomas
- Christoph von Castell
- Heiko Hecht
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- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213742
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- 10.3389/fnins.2022.937939
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- PubMed Central ID: PMC9533556
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- 1662-4548
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- Front Neurosci
- Schlüsselwörter
- emotion perception
- face masks
- facial expression recognition
- gaze direction
- head orientation
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- eng
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- 937939
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
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- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition.
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- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 16
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- Lea Thomas
- Christoph von Castell
- Heiko Hecht
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- Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491381577
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- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
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