Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands

Blythe, Ellen; Garrido, Lúcia; Longo, Matthew R.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105260

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“…This aligns well with our results, as when participants lacked action understanding, they tended to concentrate on midlevel features when describing the actions presented in dynamic stimuli. The focus on the hands in particular in participants' responses also matches previous findings on emotions being particularly well perceived from the movements of hands (Blythe et al, 2023 ).…”

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Differential contributions of body form, motion, and temporal information to subjective action understanding in naturalistic stimuli

Smekal,

Poyo Solanas,

Fraats

et al. 2024

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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IntroductionWe investigated the factors underlying naturalistic action recognition and understanding, as well as the errors occurring during recognition failures.MethodsParticipants saw full-light stimuli of ten different whole-body actions presented in three different conditions: as normal videos, as videos with the temporal order of the frames scrambled, and as single static representative frames. After each stimulus presentation participants completed one of two tasks—a forced choice task where they were given the ten potential action labels as options, or a free description task, where they could describe the action performed in each stimulus in their own words.ResultsWhile generally, a combination of form, motion, and temporal information led to the highest action understanding, for some actions form information was sufficient and adding motion and temporal information did not increase recognition accuracy. We also analyzed errors in action recognition and found primarily two different types.DiscussionOne type of error was on the semantic level, while the other consisted of reverting to the kinematic level of body part processing without any attribution of semantics. We elaborate on these results in the context of naturalistic action perception.

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confidence: 86%

Differential contributions of body form, motion, and temporal information to subjective action understanding in naturalistic stimuli

Smekal,

Poyo Solanas,

Fraats

et al. 2024

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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The rewards and the risks of using naturalistic images. How form, motion, and temporal information differentially contribute to subjective action understanding.

Smekal,

de Gelder,

Poyo Solanas

2023

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We investigated the factors underlying naturalistic action recognition and understanding, as well as theerrors occurring during recognition failures. Participants saw full-light stimuli of ten different whole-bodyactions presented in three different conditions: as normal videos, as videos with the temporal orderof the frames scrambled, and as single static representative frames. After each stimulus presentationparticipants completed one of two tasks - a forced choice task where they were given the ten potentialaction labels as options, or a free description task, where they could describe the action performedin each stimulus in their own words. While generally, a combination of form, motion, and temporalinformation led to the highest action understanding, for some actions form information was sufficient andadding motion and temporal information did not increase recognition accuracy. We also analysed errorsin action recognition and found primarily two different types. One type of errors was on the semanticlevel, while the other consisted of reverting to the kinematic level of body part processing without anyattribution of semantics. We elaborate on these results in the context of naturalistic action perception.

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“…Our facial expressions, body posture, hand motions, rate of delivery, and other semiotic resources are all prone to participate in, or be recruited by, our imagined and communicated simulations. As Blythe et al (2023) demonstrate, emotion is perceived accurately from numerous body parts—the hands in particular—not only from the face. Furthermore, multiple competing viewpoints can be communicated simultaneously, as when politicians paraphrase the viewpoint of their opponent verbally while negating or critiquing this same viewpoint gesturally (Guilbeault, 2017; Vandelanotte, 2017, p. 165).…”

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Pelkey

2023

WIRES Cognitive Science

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The findings of cognitive linguistics demonstrate the thoroughly embodied grounding of linguistic constructions and linguistic meaning ranging from abstract thought to interactive communication. A historical survey and updated summary of work in this area illustrates the many layers of bodily meaning that we rely on when thinking and communicating as human beings. Key distinctions, definitions, and clarifications, plus an overview of key works on embodied cognition in cognitive linguistics provide necessary context for understanding specific aspects of linguistic embodiment, including schemas and iconicity, mapping and metaphor, categories and projections, embodied grammar and abstract thought, intersubjectivity, and textual meaning. Realigning philosophical presuppositions with the findings of cognitive linguistics has important consequences: Body and mind can be reunited in lived experience. Both imaginative thought and rational thought can be understood as reliant on the same movement and memory structures. Even the most habituated form‐content relationships in language can be understood as growing out of vital networks of real‐world experiential relations, from the personal to the interpersonal. And instead of being understood as the narrow purview of semantics and pragmatics, the study of meaning can be embraced as the purpose and function of linguistics. These consequences have potential for revolutionizing scientific inquiry and theory building across a wide array of disciplines.This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Cognitive Linguistics Psychology > Language Philosophy > Foundations of Cognitive Science

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Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands

Cited by 11 publications

References 93 publications

Differential contributions of body form, motion, and temporal information to subjective action understanding in naturalistic stimuli

Differential contributions of body form, motion, and temporal information to subjective action understanding in naturalistic stimuli

The rewards and the risks of using naturalistic images. How form, motion, and temporal information differentially contribute to subjective action understanding.

Embodiment and language

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