Fugate Jennifer M B
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, USA.
Emot Rev. 2013 Jan;5(1):84-89. doi: 10.1177/1754073912451350.
Categorical perception (CP) refers to how similar things look different depending on whether they are classified as the same category. Many studies demonstrate that adult humans show CP for human emotional faces. It is widely debated whether the effect can be accounted for solely by perceptual differences (structural differences among emotional faces) or whether additional perceiver-based conceptual knowledge is required. In this review, I discuss the phenomenon of CP and key studies showing CP for emotional faces. I then discuss a new model of emotion which highlights how perceptual and conceptual knowledge interact to explain how people see discrete emotions in others' faces. In doing so, I discuss how language (emotion words included in the paradigm) contribute to CP.
范畴知觉(CP)指的是,事物看起来是否相似取决于它们是否被归类为同一范畴。许多研究表明,成年人对人类的表情面孔表现出范畴知觉。对于这种效应是否仅能由知觉差异(表情面孔之间的结构差异)来解释,还是需要基于感知者的额外概念知识,目前存在广泛争议。在这篇综述中,我将讨论范畴知觉现象以及显示表情面孔范畴知觉的关键研究。然后,我将讨论一种新的情绪模型,该模型强调了知觉和概念知识如何相互作用,以解释人们如何在他人脸上识别离散情绪。在此过程中,我将讨论语言(范式中包含的情绪词汇)如何促成范畴知觉。