Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study
Abstract Background Emotional cognitive impairment is a core phenotype of the clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The ability to measure emotional cognition is useful for assessing neurodegenerative conditions and treatment responses. However, certain factors such as culture, gender, and gen...
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| description | Abstract Background Emotional cognitive impairment is a core phenotype of the clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The ability to measure emotional cognition is useful for assessing neurodegenerative conditions and treatment responses. However, certain factors such as culture, gender, and generation influence emotional recognition, and these differences require examination. We investigated the characteristics of healthy young Japanese adults with respect to facial expression recognition. Methods We generated 17 models of facial expressions for each of the six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise) at three levels of emotional intensity using the Facial Acting Coding System (FACS). Thirty healthy Japanese young adults evaluated the type of emotion and emotional intensity the models represented to them. Results Assessment accuracy for all emotions, except fear, exceeded 60% in approximately half of the videos. Most facial expressions of fear were rarely accurately recognized. Gender differences were observed with respect to both faces and participants, indicating that expressions on female faces were more recognizable than those on male faces, and female participants had more accurate perceptions of facial emotions than males. Conclusion The videos used may constitute a dataset, with the possible exception of those that represent fear. The subject’s ability to recognize the type and intensity of emotions was affected by the gender of the portrayed face and the evaluator’s gender. These gender differences must be considered when developing a scale of facial expression recognition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6482d55882724de2843ce7c5d1f6e4ec2023-11-20T11:20:49ZengBMCBMC Psychology2050-72832023-08-0111111010.1186/s40359-023-01281-5Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary studyTomoko Hama0Michihiko Koeda1Department of Medical Technology, Ehime Prefectural University of Health SciencesDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical SchoolAbstract Background Emotional cognitive impairment is a core phenotype of the clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The ability to measure emotional cognition is useful for assessing neurodegenerative conditions and treatment responses. However, certain factors such as culture, gender, and generation influence emotional recognition, and these differences require examination. We investigated the characteristics of healthy young Japanese adults with respect to facial expression recognition. Methods We generated 17 models of facial expressions for each of the six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise) at three levels of emotional intensity using the Facial Acting Coding System (FACS). Thirty healthy Japanese young adults evaluated the type of emotion and emotional intensity the models represented to them. Results Assessment accuracy for all emotions, except fear, exceeded 60% in approximately half of the videos. Most facial expressions of fear were rarely accurately recognized. Gender differences were observed with respect to both faces and participants, indicating that expressions on female faces were more recognizable than those on male faces, and female participants had more accurate perceptions of facial emotions than males. Conclusion The videos used may constitute a dataset, with the possible exception of those that represent fear. The subject’s ability to recognize the type and intensity of emotions was affected by the gender of the portrayed face and the evaluator’s gender. These gender differences must be considered when developing a scale of facial expression recognition.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01281-5Facial expression recognitionEmotionFACSJapaneseCulture |
| spellingShingle | Tomoko Hama Michihiko Koeda Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study BMC Psychology Facial expression recognition Emotion FACS Japanese Culture |
| title | Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study |
| title_full | Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study |
| title_fullStr | Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study |
| title_short | Characteristics of healthy Japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions: a preliminary study |
| title_sort | characteristics of healthy japanese young adults with respect to recognition of facial expressions a preliminary study |
| topic | Facial expression recognition Emotion FACS Japanese Culture |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01281-5 |
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