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Context-Dependent Categorical Perception of Surprise

Abstract

Evidence regarding the categorical perception of surprise facial expressions has been equivocal. Surprise is inherently ambiguous with respect to valence: it could be positive or negative. If this ambiguity interferes with categorical perception, disambiguating the valence might facilitate categorical perception. Participants identified and discriminated images that were selected from expression continua: happy-fear, surprise-fear, …

Authors

Cheal JL; Rutherford MD

Journal

Perception, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 294–301

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

March 2013

DOI

10.1068/p7130

ISSN

0301-0066