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Emotional Facial Expression Detection in the Peripheral Visual Field

BACKGROUND: In everyday life, signals of danger, such as aversive facial expressions, usually appear in the peripheral visual field. Although facial expression processing in central vision has been extensively studied, this processing in peripheral vision has been poorly studied. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIP...

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Autores principales: Bayle, Dimitri J., Schoendorff, Benjamin, Hénaff, Marie-Anne, Krolak-Salmon, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21720562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021584
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author Bayle, Dimitri J.
Schoendorff, Benjamin
Hénaff, Marie-Anne
Krolak-Salmon, Pierre
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description BACKGROUND: In everyday life, signals of danger, such as aversive facial expressions, usually appear in the peripheral visual field. Although facial expression processing in central vision has been extensively studied, this processing in peripheral vision has been poorly studied. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Using behavioral measures, we explored the human ability to detect fear and disgust vs. neutral expressions and compared it to the ability to discriminate between genders at eccentricities up to 40°. Responses were faster for the detection of emotion compared to gender. Emotion was detected from fearful faces up to 40° of eccentricity. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate the human ability to detect facial expressions presented in the far periphery up to 40° of eccentricity. The increasing advantage of emotion compared to gender processing with increasing eccentricity might reflect a major implication of the magnocellular visual pathway in facial expression processing. This advantage may suggest that emotion detection, relative to gender identification, is less impacted by visual acuity and within-face crowding in the periphery. These results are consistent with specific and automatic processing of danger-related information, which may drive attention to those messages and allow for a fast behavioral reaction.
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spelling pubmed-31233732011-06-29 Emotional Facial Expression Detection in the Peripheral Visual Field Bayle, Dimitri J. Schoendorff, Benjamin Hénaff, Marie-Anne Krolak-Salmon, Pierre PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: In everyday life, signals of danger, such as aversive facial expressions, usually appear in the peripheral visual field. Although facial expression processing in central vision has been extensively studied, this processing in peripheral vision has been poorly studied. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Using behavioral measures, we explored the human ability to detect fear and disgust vs. neutral expressions and compared it to the ability to discriminate between genders at eccentricities up to 40°. Responses were faster for the detection of emotion compared to gender. Emotion was detected from fearful faces up to 40° of eccentricity. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate the human ability to detect facial expressions presented in the far periphery up to 40° of eccentricity. The increasing advantage of emotion compared to gender processing with increasing eccentricity might reflect a major implication of the magnocellular visual pathway in facial expression processing. This advantage may suggest that emotion detection, relative to gender identification, is less impacted by visual acuity and within-face crowding in the periphery. These results are consistent with specific and automatic processing of danger-related information, which may drive attention to those messages and allow for a fast behavioral reaction. Public Library of Science 2011-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3123373/ /pubmed/21720562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021584 Text en Bayle et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Emotional Facial Expression Detection in the Peripheral Visual Field
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title_short Emotional Facial Expression Detection in the Peripheral Visual Field
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21720562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021584
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