The importance of low spatial frequency information for recognising fearful facial expressions

Connection Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-83

  Mermillod, Martial ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b   Peyrin, Carole ^c   Alleysson, David ^c   Marendaz, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Connectionist networks; Fearful face recognition; Gabor filters; Principal component analysis; Spatial frequencies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LEVEL; CONNECTIONIST NETWORKS; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; FEARFUL EXPRESSIONS; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

FACE RECOGNITION; GABOR FILTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 70449581161     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090802213974     Document Type: Note

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