Brain processing differs between situation-less and situated emotional faces
Evidence from neuroimaging and behavioral studies indicates that the presence of situational context or cues significantly alters how the brain processes and integrates emotional facial expressions.
The retrieved papers include studies showing that facial emotion processing is fundamentally modulated by contextual cues and communicative intent, supporting the claim that processing differs when faces are viewed with or within situations versus in isolation.
Jalil Rasgado-Toledo, Elizabeth Valles-Capetillo, Averi Giudicessi, Magda Giordano. Neural processing of facial expressions as modulators of communicative intention. 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tsem8
Paper [3] demonstrates that preceding facial expressions act as contextual cues that modulate the neural and hemodynamic processing of subsequent communicative intents.
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Toro M, Cortés-Rivera C, Cerić F, Oliveros JC. Contextual cues shape facial emotion recognition: a combined behavioral and ERP study.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1710208
Paper [5] shows that contextual cues and emotional congruency shape facial emotion recognition from early perceptual encoding to later cognitive evaluation.
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