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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 184-189Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00801.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH 57075] Funding Source: Medline
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This article examines the human face as a transmitter of expression signals and the brain as a decoder of these expression signals. If the face has evolved to optimize transmission of such signals, the basic facial expressions should have minimal overlap in their information. If the brain has evolved to optimize categorization of expressions, it should be efficient with the information available from the transmitter for the task. In this article, we characterize the information underlying the recognition of the six basic facial expression signals and evaluate how efficiently each expression is decoded by the underlying brain structures.
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