ArticleScientific reports2018
Face size biases emotion judgment through eye movement.
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- I have my eye on the emotion: a review of eye-tracking studies exploring processing of emotional facial expressions.Psychological research · 2026Pooled it
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- Additive effects of emotional expression and stimulus size on the perception of genuine and artificial facial expressions: an ERP study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A uniform human multimodal dataset for emotion perception and judgment.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Reduced Pupil Oscillation During Facial Emotion Judgment in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Holistic processing and visual characteristics of regulated and spontaneous expressions.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- A human single-neuron dataset for face perception.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Simulated proximity enhances perceptual and physiological responses to emotional facial expressions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Encoding of facial features by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Facial expressions can be categorized along the upper-lower facial axis, from a perceptual perspective.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Faces are the most commonly used stimuli to study emotions. Researchers often manipulate the emotion contents and facial features to study emotion judgment, but rarely manipulate low-level stimulus features such as face sizes. Here, I investigated whether a mere difference in face size would cause differences in emotion judgment. Subjects discriminated emotions in fear-happy morphed faces. When subjects viewed larger faces, they had an increased judgment of fear and showed a higher specificity in emotion judgment, compared to when they viewed smaller faces. Concurrent high-resolution eye tracking further provided mechanistic insights: subjects had more fixations onto the eyes when they viewed larger faces whereas they had a wider dispersion of fixations when they viewed smaller faces. The difference in eye movement was present across fixations in serial order but independent of morph level, ambiguity level, or behavioral judgment. Together, this study not only suggested a link between emotion judgment and eye movement, but also showed importance of equalizing stimulus sizes when comparing emotion judgments.
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