Emotional expressions

Facial expressions are inherently dynamic, and our visual system is sensitive to subtle changes in their temporal sequence. However, researchers often use dynamic morphs of photographs—simplified, linear representations of motion—to study the neural correlates of dynamic face perception. To explore the brain's sensitivity to natural facial motion, we constructed a novel dynamic face database using generative neural networks, trained on a verified set of video-recorded emotional expressions. The resulting deepfakes, consciously indistinguishable from videos, enabled us to separate biological mo

In today's society, people often find it difficult to read news outside their social circle or comfort zone. The questions of whether limited availability or active avoidance of such information determines its limited reach and which neurocognitive factors contribute to this outcome are of huge importance but not adequately studied. MyNewsScan is a news aggregator platform that we developed to tackle such questions. We performed experiments asking participants to select, read and evaluate news articles on MyNewsScan: either in our Edinburgh lab with collection of biometric information such as

…such as interpersonal distance and emotional expressions prompt specific responses to facilitate functional social exchanges. Despite extensive research on these topics, studying how these features influence human physiological responses in an ecological yet controlled environment has often proven challenging. Moreover, the relation between a possible dysregulation of these physiological reactions and social anxiety remains unclear. Using a 3D virtual setting, we found increased physiological responses (

…that the recognition by humans of emotional expressions is disrupted by trancranial magnetic stimulati

…Serial dependence occurs also between emotional expressions, but it is highly selective for the same identity. Ov