Estudillo Alejandro J
Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole House Talbot Campus, Poole BH12 5BB, UK.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Jan 26;15(2):135. doi: 10.3390/bs15020135.
Although the eye-tracking technique has been widely used to passively study emotion recognition, no studies have utilised this technique to actively manipulate eye-gaze strategies during the recognition facial emotions. The present study aims to fill this gap by employing a gaze-contingent paradigm. Observers were asked to determine the emotion displayed by centrally presented upright or inverted faces. Under the window condition, only a single fixated facial feature was available at a time, only allowing for foveal processing. Under the mask condition, the fixated facial feature was masked while the rest of the face remained visible, thereby disrupting foveal processing but allowing for extrafoveal processing. These conditions were compared with a full-view condition. The results revealed that while both foveal and extrafoveal information typically contribute to emotion identification, at a standard conversation distance, the latter alone generally suffices for efficient emotion identification.
尽管眼动追踪技术已被广泛用于被动地研究情绪识别，但尚无研究利用该技术在识别面部情绪时主动操纵注视策略。本研究旨在通过采用注视依存范式来填补这一空白。观察者被要求判断中央呈现的正立或倒立面孔所表达的情绪。在窗口条件下，一次仅能看到一个被注视的面部特征，仅允许进行中央凹处理。在掩蔽条件下，被注视的面部特征被掩蔽，而面部的其余部分仍然可见，从而干扰中央凹处理，但允许进行中央凹外处理。将这些条件与全视图条件进行比较。结果表明，虽然中央凹和中央凹外信息通常都有助于情绪识别，但在标准对话距离下，仅后者通常就足以进行有效的情绪识别。
