The University of Queensland

The emotional face (ARC Discovery Project administered by Curtin University of Technology) (2014)

Abstract:

Facial expressions are extremely important signals of a person's emotional state. How the human brain encodes this information remains unclear. The current project will address this by determining whether structural facial characteristics and emotional expressions are processed by independent or shared mechanisms, whether the processing of emotional expressions requires holistic analyses of the face, and whether there are qualitative differences in the processing of different emotional expressions (anger or happiness preference). Project results will clarify how facial expressions are encoded, providing an invaluable base for subsequent applied research into deficits of emotional expression processing.

Grant type:

Curtin University of Technology

Researchers:

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  Professor Derek Arnold

  Professor
  

  School of Psychology

  Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Funded by:

Curtin University of Technology