Indersmitten and Gur (2003) Emotion Processing in Chimeric Faces: Hemispheric Asymmetries in Expression and Recognition of Emotions.

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Emotion Processing in Chimeric Faces: Hemispheric Asymmetries in Expression and Recognition of Emotions.

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Indersmitten, Tim
	Author:	Gur, Ruben C

JOURNAL:

The journal of neuroscience: The official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 23(9), 3820 - 3825.

YEAR:

2003

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

psychology, neuropsychology, perception, emotion, emotional expression, facial asymmetry

DISCIPLINE:

Psychology

HTTP:

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/23/9/3820

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-417-811 (Last edited on 2005/07/18 05:15:08 GMT-6)

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ABSTRACT:
Since the discovery of facial asymmetries in emotional expressions of humans and other primates, hypotheses have related the greater left-hemiface intensity to right-hemispheric dominance in emotion processing. However, the difficulty of creating true frontal views of facial expressions in two-dimensional photographs has confounded efforts to better understand the phenomenon. We have recently described a method for obtaining three-dimensional photographs of posed and evoked emotional expressions and used these stimuli to investigate both intensity of expression and accuracy of recognizing emotion in chimeric faces constructed from only left- or right-side composites. The participant population included 38 (19 male, 19 female) African-American, Caucasian, and Asian adults. They were presented with chimeric composites generated from faces of eight actors and eight actresses showing four emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, and fear, each in posed and evoked conditions. We replicated the finding that emotions are expressed more intensely in the left hemiface for all emotions and conditions, with the exception of evoked anger, which was expressed more intensely in the right hemiface. In contrast, the results indicated that emotional expressions are recognized more efficiently in the right hemiface, indicating that the right hemiface expresses emotions more accurately. The double dissociation between the laterality of expression intensity and that of recognition efficiency supports the notion that the two kinds of processes may have distinct neural substrates. Evoked anger is uniquely expressed more intensely and accurately on the side of the face that projects to the viewer's right hemisphere, dominant in emotion recognition.

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