Reading chimpanzee faces: Evidence for the role of verbal labels in categorical perception of emotion

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 544-554

  Fugate, Jennifer M B ^a   Gouzoules, Harold ^b   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Emotion; Expertise; Facial expressions; Verbal labeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; KNOWLEDGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTION; SPEECH;

EID: 77955741187     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019017     Document Type: Article

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