Conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception.

ABSTRACT: Recent theoretical accounts argue that conceptual knowledge dynamically interacts with processing of facial cues, fundamentally influencing visual perception of social and emotion categories. Evidence is accumulating for the idea that a perceiver's conceptual knowledge about emotion is involved in emotion perception, even when stereotypic facial expressions are presented in isolation^1-4. However, existing methods have not allowed a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between conceptual knowledge and emotion perception across individuals and emotion categories. Here we use a representational similarity analysis approach to show that conceptual knowledge predicts the representational structure of facial emotion perception. We conducted three studies using computer mouse-t

SUBMITTER: Brooks JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6788630 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature