Brain processing differs between situation-less and situated emotional faces
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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.
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Neural processing of facial expressions as modulators of communicative intention
2021 · cited by 3
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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Contextual cues shape facial emotion recognition: a combined behavioral and ERP study.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper [5] shows that contextual cues and emotional congruency shape facial emotion recognition from early perceptual encoding to later cognitive evaluation.