ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions.
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- The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Listening to a Consonant Chord Progression during Live Face-to-Face Gaze Enhances Neural Activity in Social Systems.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural signals gradually shift towards inferior frontal gyrus and long-term effects following facial imitation-based social learning.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- A sensorimotor basis for facial expressivity differences in autism.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Emotions spread like contagious diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Deep multimodal representations and classification of first-episode psychosis via live face processing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The new social landscape: Relationships among social media use, social skills, and offline friendships from age 10-18 years.Computers in human behavior · 2024Article
- Sensorimotor regulation of facial expression - An untouched frontier.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Lower empathy for face mask wearers is not explained by observer's reduced facial mimicry.PloS one · 2024Article
- Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Viewing a live facial expression typically elicits a similar expression by the observer (facial mimicry) that is associated with a concordant emotional experience (emotional contagion). The model of embodied emotion proposes that emotional contagion and facial mimicry are functionally linked although the neural underpinnings are not known. To address this knowledge gap, we employed a live two-person paradigm (
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