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second, separating the negative emotion from ego. During the treatment, it is also to be used that
transforming the negative emotion into feeling and then dispelling it.
4059 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Current status of face perception
Convener and Chair: T. Sato, Japan
4059.1 Is face perception model-based or image-based? C.H. Liu, University of Hull, Hull, UK
It is known that face perception relies on surface properties and shading information. Although
this has often been interpreted as the evidence of 3D shape processing, it remains unclear whether
face processing involves construction of 3D shape from 2D input or merely depends on 2D
patterns. Model-based theories imply construction of volumetric information from available depth
cues, whereas image-based theories rely on computation of image similarities. Recent tests of
these theories revealed that although not completely ignored by the observers, depth cues such as
perspective and stereopsis offer little assistance to face identification. This lends stronger support
to image-based theories.
4059.2 Before botox: The perception of facial movement, H. Hill, Advanced
Telecommunications Research International, Kyoto, Japan
Faces move in interesting rigid and non-rigid ways and yet, until recently, have been treated as
static stimuli within Psychology. New technology, including video and computer animation,
allows facial movement to be controlled and studied explicitly. It has been shown that movement
can provide useful information for a wide variety of tasks including recognition, categorization
and communication, and that motion may be particularly useful when shape-based information is
difficult to recover. Results suggest that rigid and non-rigid information may be encoded
independently, with non-rigid motion encoded within a face-centered framework, but the details of
encoding remain a key, unanswered question.
4059.3 Recognizing dynamic facial expressions of emotion, S. Yoshikawa, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
This paper briefly introduces the neural areas devoted to processing the social signals contained in
a face, such as emotional expression and eye gaze, and then describes three pieces of
psychological research using dynamic facial expression stimuli made using a morphing technique:
a perception study, an fMRI study, and an analysis of the spontaneous facial reactions that occur
when observing dynamic facial expression stimuli. Based on these findings, I emphasize the
importance of an integrated approach to understanding the processing of dynamic facial
expressions in terms of perceptual/cognitive, emotional, and motor planning processes.
4059.4 Psychophysics of eye contacts, T. Sato, University of Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan
It is not clear whether the limit for the feeling of being-looked-at (eye-contact) is related to acuity,
or to the amount of shift relative to the eye ball size. We examined this issue by systematically
manipulating the viewing distance and the spatial frequency composition. We found that the
impression of eye contact occurs when the gaze was directed within 3 deg range around the nose
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