ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Understanding the Impact of Face Masks on the Processing of Facial Identity, Emotion, Age, and Gender.
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- Emotion recognition in autism spectrum condition during the COVID-19 pandemic.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
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- Seeing emotions in the eyes: a validated test to study individual differences in the perception of basic emotions.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: A repeated cross-sectional study.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Social sensitivity predicts accurate emotion inference from facial expressions in a face mask: a study in Japan.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Masking our emotions: Emotion recognition and perceived intensity differ by race and use of medical masks.PloS one · 2023Article
- Face masks affect emotion categorisation, age estimation, recognition, and gender classification from faces.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Smiling makes you look older, even when you wear a mask: the effect of face masks on age perception.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- The Effect of Surgical Masks on the Featural and Configural Processing of Emotions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Emotional Lockdown: How Social Distancing and Mask Wearing Influence Mood and Emotion Recognition in Adolescents and Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- An Intelligent handcrafted feature selection using Archimedes optimization algorithm for facial analysis.Soft computing · 2022Article
- Face masks have a limited effect on the feeling of being looked at.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new challenges for governments and individuals. Unprecedented efforts at reducing virus transmission launched a novel arena for human face recognition in which faces are partially occluded with masks. Previous studies have shown that masks decrease accuracy of face identity and emotion recognition. The current study focuses on the impact of masks on the speed of processing of these and other important social dimensions. Here we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of COVID-19 masks on facial identity, emotion, gender, and age. Four experiments (
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