Amygdala response to emotional stimuli without awareness: facts and interpretations

M Diano, A Celeghin, A Bagnis, M Tamietto - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts
some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence …

The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

R Van Rooijen, A Ploeger, ME Kret - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017 - Springer
For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other
individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics

LP Kirsch, C Urgesi, ES Cross - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Less than two decades after its inception, the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics continues
to grow in interest and momentum. Despite the biological and social importance of the …

Similarities and differences in perceiving threat from dynamic faces and bodies. An fMRI study

ME Kret, S Pichon, J Grèzes, B de Gelder - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Neuroscientific research on the perception of emotional signals has mainly focused on how
the brain processes threat signals from photographs of facial expressions. Much less is …

Emotional expressions beyond facial muscle actions. A call for studying autonomic signals and their impact on social perception

ME Kret - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Humans are well adapted to quickly recognize and adequately respond to another's
emotions. Different theories propose that mimicry of emotional expressions (facial or …

Body maps in the infant brain

PJ Marshall, AN Meltzoff - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Researchers have examined representations of the body in the adult brain but relatively little
attention has been paid to ontogenetic aspects of neural body maps in human infants. Novel …

More than the face: representations of bodies in the inferior temporal cortex

R Vogels - Annual review of vision science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Visual representations of bodies, in addition to those of faces, contribute to the recognition of
con-and heterospecifics, to action recognition, and to nonverbal communication. Despite its …

Parental embodied mentalizing: How the nonverbal dance between parents and infants predicts children's socio-emotional functioning

D Shai, J Belsky - Attachment & human development, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Parental mentalizing–the parent's ability to envision the child's mental states (such as
desires, thoughts, or wishes)–has been argued to underlie a parent's ability to respond …

Dynamic changes in amygdala psychophysiological connectivity reveal distinct neural networks for facial expressions of basic emotions

M Diano, M Tamietto, A Celeghin, L Weiskrantz… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The quest to characterize the neural signature distinctive of different basic emotions has
recently come under renewed scrutiny. Here we investigated whether facial expressions of …

Adaptive body gesture representation for automatic emotion recognition

S Piana, A Staglianò, F Odone, A Camurri - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a computational model and a system for the automated recognition of emotions
starting from full-body movement. Three-dimensional motion data of full-body movements …