Contrast normalisation masks natural expression-related differences and artificially enhances the perceived salience of fear expressions.

Fearful facial expressions tend to be more salient than other expressions. This threat bias is to some extent driven by simple low-level image properties, rather than the high-level emotion interpretation of stimuli. It might be expected therefore that different expressions will, on average, have di...

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Main Authors: Abigail L M Webb, Paul B Hibbard, Rick O'Gorman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234513