English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Meeting Abstract

Neural processing of facial motion cues about identity and expression

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons84201

Schultz,  J
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons84005

Kaulard,  K
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons84141

Pilz,  P
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons83890

Dobs,  K
Project group: Recognition & Categorization, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons83840

Bülthoff,  I
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Project group: Recognition & Categorization, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons83911

Fernandez-Cruz,  A
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

Brockhaus,  B
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons83839

Bülthoff,  HH
Project group: Cybernetics Approach to Perception & Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Schultz, J., Kaulard, K., Pilz, P., Dobs, K., Bülthoff, I., Fernandez-Cruz, A., et al. (2017). Neural processing of facial motion cues about identity and expression. In T. Goschke, A. Bolte, & C. Kirschbaum (Eds.), TeaP 2017: Abstracts of the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (pp. 32-33). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-C5E0-4
Abstract
Much can be learned about a person from static face cues, yet the faces we encounter everyday move and deform in characteristic ways. This facial motion is a highly salient, natural stimulus that contains information about a person’s emotions, their focus of attention, their speech and even their identity. In behavioural experiments using video displays, we found that even subtle facial expressions can be reliably distinguished when faces are presented with their natural facial motion, and that recognition performance of such subtle expressions varies more strongly as a function of the autistic traits of healthy participants than observed with displays of basic emotions. In behavioural experiments using animated avatar faces displaying natural facial motion, we found that observers are highly sensitive to deviations from the natural motion of faces and that complex everyday face movements carry more information about the identity of a person than basic emotions. In neuroimaging (fMRI) experiments, we found that parts of the posterior superior temporal sulcus 1) are sensitive to natural facial motion while ventral temporal visual regions are not; 2) contain neural representations of subtle facial expressions; and 3) contain representations of basic emotions and face identity that are boosted by attention. Overall, our data suggest that natural facial motion stimuli engage the neural mechanisms involved in everyday social interactions particularly well, and that using such stimuli in controlled displays opens new avenues for the investigation of the social brain.