Historically, research on emotion perception has focused on facial expressions, and findings
from this modality have come to dominate our thinking about other modalities. Here we …

Rapid assessment of emotions is important for detecting and prioritizing salient input.
Emotions are conveyed in spoken words via verbal and non-verbal channels that are …

In our everyday lives, we perceive emotional information via multiple sensory channels. This
is particularly evident for emotional faces and voices in a social context. Over the past years …

In everyday life, multiple sensory channels jointly trigger emotional experiences and one
channel may alter processing in another channel. For example, seeing an emotional facial …

Perceiving and interpreting other people's emotional states is essential for effective social
interaction. Its very importance is likely to have resulted in the evolution of complex …

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 …

Whether common or distinct neural systems underpin perception of different emotions and
the degree to which these systems are automatically engaged during emotional perception …

Humans are well adapted to quickly recognize and adequately respond to another's
emotions. Different theories propose that mimicry of emotional expressions (facial or …

Most past research on emotion recognition has used photographs of posed expressions
intended to depict the apex of the emotional display. Although these studies have provided …

Highlights•Emotion perception research relies heavily on stereotypical decontextualized
posed faces.•Real-life facial expressions are highly ambiguous and thus rely on contextual …