Emotions and the body
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Emotions and the body
Oxford University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-282) and index
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Description
The face has long been considered the gateway to understanding human emotion and cognition. Body language is an equally powerful means of communication, however. Although faces and bodies can express themselves in many similar ways, examining their differences may be the best way to learn how bodies communicate. Exploring the body's role in perceiving and expressing emotion has opened broad new avenues for research in cognitive neuroscience.
Emotions and the Body discusses the neural basis and temporal processing signatures of emotional body language by drawing on state-of-the-art research in the neuropsychology of emotional face and body disorders. Beatrice de Gelder explores a range of fascinating questions such as: How do facial and bodily expressions interact? What role does emotional body language play in social interaction? If body language is perceived even with limited attention and reduced visual awareness, as
studies with patients have shown, then what is the nature of emotional experience, and how is awareness affected? Are some cultures less expressive in their body language? And are there notable gender and cultural differences in emotional body language, as is the case for facial expressions?
Research on emotional body language shows that emotions are tools for adaptive action, and that they allow us to predict interactions with real, imagined, and virtual others. These data prompt de Gelder to consider virtual bodies as well as physical ones, including avatars and robots. The wide-ranging implications of her study will appeal especially to scholars and students of cognitive neuroscience, but also to those working in such related fields as information and communication technology,
computer science, animation, and robotics.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Why Bodies?
Chapter 2 Face Perception and Its Context
Chapter 3 Emotions: Measuring the Impossible?
Chapter 4 Seeing Actions: Understanding Intentions and Feeling Emotions
Chapter 5 The Functional Brain Basis of Bodily Expressions
Chapter 6 Emotion Traffic: High Roads, Low Roads, and Multiple Roads to Unconscious Body Perception
Chapter 7 The Time Course of Emotional Body Perception
Chapter 8 Gender, Culture, and Context Differences in the Recognition of Bodily Expressions
Chapter 9 Body Consciousness, Body Perception Deficits, and Virtual Bodies
Chapter 10 Interactions, or Why It Takes More Than One to Tango
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Index
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