Dynamic Perception of Facial Affect and Identity in the Human Brain

LaBar, Kevin S.; Crupain, Michael J.; Voyvodic, James T.; McCarthy, Gregory

doi:10.1093/cercor/13.10.1023

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“…Passive viewing of still images of bodily expressions activates areas in the occipitoparietal pathway reaching the SMA, cingulate gyrus, and middle frontal gyrus, which has been detected during the observation of actions with the intent to imitate later and voluntary action (42,44), and suggests that passive viewing can initiate motor preparation. Activity in caudate nucleus was also observed for motion stimuli (46). Interestingly, the present activations may follow from a process whereby the brain fills in the missing dynamic information (47).…”

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Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

Gelder

Snyder

Greve

et al. 2004

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Darwin regarded emotions as predispositions to act adaptively, thereby suggesting that characteristic body movements are associated with each emotional state. To this date, investigations of emotional cognition have predominantly concentrated on processes associated with viewing facial expressions. However, expressive body movements may be just as important for understanding the neurobiology of emotional behavior. Here, we used functional MRI to clarify how the brain recognizes happiness or fear expressed by a whole body. Our results indicate that observing fearful body expressions produces increased activity in brain areas narrowly associated with emotional processes and that this emotion-related activity occurs together with activation of areas linked with representation of action and movement. The mechanism of fear contagion hereby suggested may automatically prepare the brain for action.emotion communication ͉ body movement ͉ action ͉ social cognition ͉ amygdala

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

Gelder

Snyder

Greve

et al. 2004

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Each face was discrimination in a statistical model, so that identity discrimination was still possible when analysis was restricted to components selective for expression discrimination and vice versa. Neuroimaging studies have also shown a large overlap in activation patterns and associated processes drawn upon during identity and facial expression recognition tasks (e.g., LaBar, Crupain, Voyvodic, & McCarthy, 2003). Facial speech processing, another changeable aspect of the face, has similarly been shown to interact with identity processing (Walker, Bruce, & O'Malley, 1995).…”

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Examinations of identity invariance in facial expression adaptation

Ellamil

Susskind

Anderson

2008

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…The superior temporal sulcus is increasingly being regarded as a higher-order processing region for the integration of multisensory stimuli and motion perception (Grossman & Blake, 2002;Jellema, Maassen, & Perrett, 2004;LaBar, Crupain, Voyvodic, & McCarthy, 2003; J. P. Morris, Pelphrey, & McCarthy, 2005;Pasternak & Merigan, 1994;Pelphrey, Mitchell, et al, 2003). To separate unique brain activation to motion cues from other contextual factors, researchers have frequently used highly degraded visual stimuli such as point-light displays (Heberlein, Adolphs, Tranel, & Damasio, 2004).…”

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Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes.

Zucker¹,

Losh²,

Bulik³

et al. 2007

Psychological Bulletin

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Death by suicide occurs in a disproportionate percentage of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), with a standardized mortality ratio indicating a 57-fold greater risk of death from suicide relative to an age-matched cohort. Longitudinal studies indicate impaired social functioning increases risk for fatal outcomes, while social impairment persists following recovery. Study of social cognition in AN may elucidate impaired processes that may influence therapeutic efficacy. Symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are overrepresented in those who evidence a chronic course. Relative to that in AN, social information processing in ASD is well characterized and may inform systematic study in AN. This article (a) reviews impaired interpersonal processes in AN, (b) compares the phenotype of AN with that of ASD, (c) highlights deficits of social cognitive disturbance in ASD relative to AN, and (d) proposes a new framework to understand the interaction of individuals with AN with their social context.Keywords: anorexia nervosa, social cognition, autism, interpersonal functioning, eating disorders Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) have a nearly 12-fold greater risk of death from all causes and a 57-fold greater risk of death from suicide relative to their age-matched peers (Keel et al., 2003). Such troubling statistics speak to the incapacitating, perplexing, and isolating nature of AN, a severe psychiatric illness that negatively impacts the biological, emotional, and psychosocial functioning of both the affected individual and her or his family (Harris & Barraclough, 1998;Treasure, Whitaker, Whitney, & Schmidt, 2005). In fact, AN exacts a toll on the family reported to exceed that experienced by families with a child with a severe psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia . Although guiding epidemiologic data are currently lacking, there has been increasing concern regarding several notable trends: (a) an upsurge of AN in both younger and older ages than has been previously reported Johnson, Cohen, Kasen, & Brook, 2006;Marcus & Kalarchian, 2003), (b) increased incidence in minority groups hitherto thought protected (Decaluwe, Braet, & Fairburn, 2003;Tanofsky-Kraff et al., 2003), and (c) recent published reports of extensive illness burden among family members Treasure, Whitaker, Whitney, & Schmidt, 2005;Whitney & Eisler, 2005). Such patterns highlight the broad impact of these illnesses and underscore the urgency of alternative approaches to illness management.While advances have been made in the treatment of adolescents with a relatively short duration of illness (Lock & le Grange, 2005), progress in the treatment of adults with AN remains limited, at best (W. S. Agras et al., 2004;Kaplan, 2002). Of note, a report issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (W. S. Agras et al., 2004) emphasized the absence of innovative treatment approaches over the past several decades. This conclusion was recently echoed in an evidence-based review calling for novel intervention strategies that target core biological...

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Dynamic Perception of Facial Affect and Identity in the Human Brain

Cited by 297 publications

References 94 publications

Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

Examinations of identity invariance in facial expression adaptation

Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes.

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