Journal article
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