Visual working memory for faces and facial expressions as a useful “tool” for understanding social and affective cognition

F Gambarota, P Sessa - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Visual working memory (VWM) is one of the most investigated cognitive systems functioning
as a hub between low-and high-level processes. Remarkably, its role in human cognitive …

Negative and positive bias for emotional faces: Evidence from the attention and working memory paradigms

Q Xu, C Ye, S Gu, Z Hu, Y Lei, X Li, L Huang… - Neural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are two major cognitive functions in
humans, and they have much in common. A growing body of research has investigated the …

Blocking facial mimicry affects recognition of facial and body expressions

S Borgomaneri, C Bolloni, P Sessa, A Avenanti - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Facial mimicry is commonly defined as the tendency to imitate—at a sub-threshold level—
facial expressions of other individuals. Numerous studies support a role of facial mimicry in …

Degenerate pathway for processing smile and other emotional expressions in congenital facial palsy: an hdEEG investigation

P Sessa, A Schiano Lomoriello… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Influential theoretical models argue that an internal simulation mechanism (motor or
sensorimotor simulation) supports the recognition of facial expressions. However, despite …

Lonely and Insecure: How salesperson Well-Being impacts performance

V Good, AG Fehl, SM Mangus - Journal of Business Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Loneliness has become increasingly common in society, especially for salespeople as they
navigate the more remote, digital world of selling. Understanding how loneliness impacts the …

Sensitivity to basic emotional expressions and the emotion perception space in the absence of facial mimicry: The case of individuals with congenital facial palsy.

A Schiano Lomoriello, G Caperna, A Carta… - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
According to sensorimotor simulation models, recognition of another person's emotion is
achieved by recreating the motor production of the perceived facial expression in oneself …

Altering facial movements abolishes neural mirroring of facial expressions

K Birch-Hurst, M Rychlowska, MB Lewis… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
People tend to automatically imitate others' facial expressions of emotion. That reaction,
termed “facial mimicry” has been linked to sensorimotor simulation—a process in which the …

Altering sensorimotor simulation impacts early stages of facial expression processing depending on individual differences in alexithymic traits

AS Lomoriello, A Maffei, S Brigadoi, P Sessa - Brain and Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Simulation models of facial expressions suggest that posterior visual areas and brain areas
underpinning sensorimotor simulations might interact to improve facial expression …

Children with facial paralysis due to Moebius syndrome exhibit reduced autonomic modulation during emotion processing

E De Stefani, M Ardizzi, Y Nicolini, M Belluardo… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Facial mimicry is crucial in the recognition of others' emotional state. Thus, the
observation of others' facial expressions activates the same neural representation of that …

The association of negative mood with automatic and effortful facial expression mimicry

TL Kraft-Feil, RE Ingram, C Gorey, JH Luu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The natural process of mimicking the facial expressions of others is well established, as are
the deficits in this reflexive behavior for individuals with clinical disorders such as …