Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Facial expressions of emotion involve a physical component of morphological changes in a
face and an affective component conveying information about the expresser's internal …

The present study aimed to identify the brain processes—and their time course—underlying
the typical behavioral recognition advantage of happy facial expressions. To this end, we …

High-quality AI-generated portraits (“deepfakes”) are becoming increasingly prevalent.
Understanding the responses they evoke in perceivers is crucial in assessing their societal …

The late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related potential (ERP) component over visual
cortical areas that is modulated by the emotional intensity of a stimulus. However, the …

This study investigated the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the role of the eye and
the mouth regions in the recognition of facial happiness, anger, and surprise. To this end …

Cross-cultural and laboratory research indicates that some facial expressions of emotion are
recognized more accurately and faster than others. We assessed the hypothesis that such …

Social cognitive neuroscience is a recent interdisciplinary field that studies the neural basis
of the social mind. Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide precise information about the …

The influence of explicit evaluative processes on the contextual integration of facial
expressions of emotion was studied in a procedure that required the participants to judge …

Behavioral literature investigating emotional processes in depressive populations (ie,
unipolar and bipolar depression) states that, compared to healthy controls, depressive …