The perception of emotion in body expressions

B De Gelder, AW de Borst… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
During communication, we perceive and express emotional information through many
different channels, including facial expressions, prosody, body motion, and posture …

Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language

B De Gelder - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
People's faces show fear in many different circumstances. However, when people are
terrified, as well as showing emotion, they run for cover. When we see a bodily expression of …

How emotions are shaped by bodily states

HD Critchley, Y Nagai - Emotion Review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The state of the body is central to guiding motivational behaviours. Here we discuss how
afferent information from face and viscera influence the processing and communication of …

Embodied emotion: The influence of manipulated facial and bodily states on emotive responses

TF Price, E Harmon‐Jones - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of evidence suggests that certain facial expressions and postures are
associated with emotional and motivational responses. This review discusses behavioral …

Emotional signals from faces, bodies and scenes influence observers' face expressions, fixations and pupil-size

ME Kret, K Roelofs, JJ Stekelenburg… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
We receive emotional signals from different sources, including the face, the whole body, and
the natural scene. Previous research has shown the importance of context provided by the …

Why bodies? Twelve reasons for including bodily expressions in affective neuroscience

B De Gelder - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

Recognizing emotions expressed by body pose: A biologically inspired neural model

K Schindler, L Van Gool, B De Gelder - Neural networks, 2008 - Elsevier
Research into the visual perception of human emotion has traditionally focused on the facial
expression of emotions. Recently researchers have turned to the more challenging field of …

Perception of face and body expressions using electromyography, pupillometry and gaze measures

ME Kret, JJ Stekelenburg, K Roelofs… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Traditional emotion theories stress the importance of the face in the expression of emotions
but bodily expressions are becoming increasingly important as well. In these experiments …

Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas

MV Peelen, AP Atkinson, F Andersson… - Social cognitive and …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Emotionally expressive faces have been shown to modulate activation in visual cortex,
including face-selective regions in ventral temporal lobe. Here, we tested whether …

Emotion expression in body action and posture.

N Dael, M Mortillaro, KR Scherer - Emotion, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Emotion communication research strongly focuses on the face and voice as expressive
modalities, leaving the rest of the body relatively understudied. Contrary to the early …