Emotional facial expressions represent facial displays of emotions which determine different patterns of muscular correlates, cognitive responses, and brain activation. Autonomic and central nervous systems cooperate in order to provide a coherent pattern of mimic responses to specific contextual cues. Positive (i.e., happiness) vs. negative (i.e., anger) facial expressions are produced respectively in consequences to aversive or appetitive contexts. People are able to consciously produce and comprehend facial expressions, but in many cases, they may obtain emotional information from face by using an unconscious processing (pre-attentive processing).
Balconi, M., Voce "Consciousness and emotion: attentive vs. pre-attentive elaboration of face processing", in Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer Verlag, New-York 2012: 774-776 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/28273]
Consciousness and emotion: attentive vs. pre-attentive elaboration of face processing
Balconi, Michela
2012
Abstract
Emotional facial expressions represent facial displays of emotions which determine different patterns of muscular correlates, cognitive responses, and brain activation. Autonomic and central nervous systems cooperate in order to provide a coherent pattern of mimic responses to specific contextual cues. Positive (i.e., happiness) vs. negative (i.e., anger) facial expressions are produced respectively in consequences to aversive or appetitive contexts. People are able to consciously produce and comprehend facial expressions, but in many cases, they may obtain emotional information from face by using an unconscious processing (pre-attentive processing).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.