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A modulatory role for facial expressions in prosopagnosiaBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LA Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:13105-10. 2003..This finding suggests a modulatory role of these areas in face identification that is independent of occipitotemporal face areas...
Huntington's disease impairs recognition of angry and instrumental body languageBeatrice de Gelder
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129, United States
Neuropsychologia 46:369-73. 2008..Furthermore, the body language perception deficits are correlated with measures of motor deficit. Taken together the results suggest a close relationship between emotion recognition (specifically anger) and motor abilities...
Towards the neurobiology of emotional body languageBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Nat Rev Neurosci 7:242-9. 2006..This article reviews how whole-body signals are automatically perceived and understood, and their role in emotional communication and decision-making...
Decreased differential activity in the amygdala in response to fearful expressions in Type D personalityB de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Neurophysiol Clin 38:163-9. 2008..The same pattern was observed for the right amygdala for fearful facial and bodily expressions when contrasted with neutral facial and bodily expressions...
Naso-temporal asymmetry of the N170 for processing faces in normal viewers but not in developmental prosopagnosiaBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Neurosci Lett 376:40-5. 2005..These results point to the importance of the early stages of face processing for normal face recognition abilities and suggest a potentially important factor in the origins of developmental prosopagnosia...
Multisensory integration of emotional faces and voices in schizophrenicsBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, The Netherlands
Schizophr Res 72:195-203. 2005..Results are discussed in the light of current models of multisensory integration and their relevance for schizophrenia...
Fear fosters flight: a mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole bodyBeatrice de Gelder
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, First Street Building 36, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16701-6. 2004..The mechanism of fear contagion hereby suggested may automatically prepare the brain for action...
Non-conscious recognition of emotional body languageBeatrice de Gelder
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
Neuroreport 17:583-6. 2006..Our results show that in the absence of the striate cortex implicit bodily emotion perception may be possible...
The neural basis of perceiving emotional bodily expressions in monkeysBeatrice de Gelder
MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Neuroreport 20:642-6. 2009....
Pointing with the eyes: the role of gaze in communicating dangerNouchine Hadjikhani
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Brain Cogn 68:1-8. 2008....
Specific and common brain regions involved in the perception of faces and bodies and the representation of their emotional expressionsWim A C van de Riet
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Soc Neurosci 4:101-20. 2009..Finally, some face/body differences in activation are a function of the emotion expressed...
Body expressions of emotion do not trigger fear contagion in autism spectrum disorderNouchine Hadjikhani
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:70-8. 2009..Our data suggest that emotion perception deficits in ASD may be due to compromised processing of the emotional component of observed actions...
Instrumental music influences recognition of emotional body languageJan van den Stock
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Brain Topogr 21:216-20. 2009....
Neural correlates of perceiving emotional faces and bodies in developmental prosopagnosia: an event-related fMRI-studyJan van den Stock
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 3:e3195. 2008..Taken together our study shows the importance of using naturalistic emotional stimuli for a better understanding of developmental face deficits...
Unseen facial and bodily expressions trigger fast emotional reactionsMarco Tamietto
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:17661-6. 2009....
Emotional voice and emotional body postures influence each other independently of visual awarenessBernard M C Stienen
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 6:e25517. 2011..Our experiments show that audiovisual integration between bodily expressions and affective prosody can take place outside and independent of visual awareness...
Perception of facial expressions and voices and of their combination in the human brainGilles Pourtois
Donders Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Cortex 41:49-59. 2005..These results suggest that during the multisensory perception of emotion, affective information from face and voice converge in heteromodal regions of the human brain...
Illusory sound shifts induced by the ventriloquist illusion evoke the mismatch negativityJeroen J Stekelenburg
Psychonomics Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neurosci Lett 357:163-6. 2004..These results indicate that the crossmodal interaction on which the ventriloquist illusion is based takes place automatically at an early processing stage, within 200 ms after stimulus onset...
Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in the perception of bodies and bodily expressionsBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 34:513-27. 2010....
Context influences early perceptual analysis of faces--an electrophysiological studyRuthger Righart
Department of Psychology, Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Cereb Cortex 16:1249-57. 2006..These findings suggest that the context in which a face appears may influence how it is encoded...
Beyond the face: exploring rapid influences of context on face processingBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Prog Brain Res 155:37-48. 2006..Here we review the emerging evidence on how the immediate visual and auditory contexts influence the recognition of facial expressions...
Early category-specific cortical activation revealed by visual stimulus inversionHanneke K M Meeren
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 3:e3503. 2008....
The aftereffects of ventriloquism: are they sound-frequency specific?Ilja Frissen
Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Acta Psychol (Amst) 113:315-27. 2003..This result did not depend on which modality attention was forced on through catch trials during exposure. Implications concerning the functional site of recalibration are briefly discussed...
Perceiving emotions from bodily expressions and multisensory integration of emotion cues in schizophreniaJan van den Stock
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Soc Neurosci 6:537-47. 2011..This shows that schizophrenia patients are impaired in recognizing whole-body expressions, and they show abnormal affective multisensory integration of bimodal stimuli originating from the same source...
Recalibration of temporal order perception by exposure to audio-visual asynchronyJean Vroomen
Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, Tilburg 500 LE, The Netherlands
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22:32-5. 2004..The point of subjective simultaneity (PSS) was, in both cases, shifted in the direction of the exposure lag, indicative of recalibration...
Collicular vision guides nonconscious behaviorMarco Tamietto
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
J Cogn Neurosci 22:888-902. 2010....
The neural correlates of perceiving human bodies: an ERP study on the body-inversion effectJeroen J Stekelenburg
Psychonomics Laboratory, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neuroreport 15:777-80. 2004..Our results indicate that, like faces, bodies are processed configurally, and that within each category qualitative differences are observed for emotional as opposed to neutral images...
Event-related repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of posterior superior temporal sulcus improves the detection of threatening postural changes in human bodiesMatteo Candidi
Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, I 00185 Rome, Italy
J Neurosci 31:17547-54. 2011....
Rapid influence of emotional scenes on encoding of facial expressions: an ERP studyRuthger Righart
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Warandelaan 2, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:270-8. 2008..Our results show that the information provided by the facial expression is combined with the scene context during the early stages of face processing...
The role of negative affectivity and social inhibition in perceiving social threat: an fMRI studyMariska Esther Kret
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neuropsychologia 49:1187-93. 2011..Our findings demonstrate effects of personality traits on the neural coding of threatening signals...
Cortico-subcortical visual, somatosensory, and motor activations for perceiving dynamic whole-body emotional expressions with and without striate cortex (V1)Jan van den Stock
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:16188-93. 2011....
The constructive nature of affective vision: seeing fearful scenes activates extrastriate body areaCharlotte B A Sinke
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 7:e38118. 2012..This response of EBA to threatening scenes in which no body is present gives rise to speculation about its function. We discuss the possibility that the brain reacts proactively to the emotional meaning of the scene...
Subcortical connections to human amygdala and changes following destruction of the visual cortexMarco Tamietto
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Curr Biol 22:1449-55. 2012..The present findings thus show extensive neural plasticity in the anatomical connections between subcortical visual structures of old evolutionary origin involved in the processing of emotional stimuli...
Emotional information in body and background hampers recognition memory for facesJan van den Stock
Brain and Emotion Laboratory Leuven, Division of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Neurobiol Learn Mem 97:321-5. 2012....
Impaired face and body perception in developmental prosopagnosiaRuthger Righart
Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17234-8. 2007....
Body expressions influence recognition of emotions in the face and voiceJan van den Stock
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
Emotion 7:487-94. 2007....
Seeing fearful body expressions activates the fusiform cortex and amygdalaNouchine Hadjikhani
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Curr Biol 13:2201-5. 2003..Our findings open a new area of investigation of the role of body expressions of emotion in adaptive behavior as well as the relation between processes of emotion recognition in the face and in the body...
I feel your voice. Cultural differences in the multisensory perception of emotionAkihiro Tanaka
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University
Psychol Sci 21:1259-62. 2010..Our findings provide the first evidence that multisensory integration of affective information is modulated by perceivers' cultural background...
Human and animal sounds influence recognition of body languageJan van den Stock
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Brain Res 1242:185-90. 2008..Our results show that a crossmodal influence from auditory to visual emotional information obtains for whole body video images with the facial expression blanked and includes human as well as animal sounds...
Social context influences recognition of bodily expressionsMariska Esther Kret
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Tilburg, LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Exp Brain Res 203:169-80. 2010..Taken together, the results show that the social context influences our recognition of a person's bodily expression...
The aftereffects of ventriloquism: the time course of the visual recalibration of auditory localizationIlja Frissen
Department of Medical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Seeing Perceiving 25:1-14. 2012..The rate of adaptation was independent of the size of the discrepancy. The retention of the aftereffect was strong, as we found no dissipation, not even after as few as 60 exposure trials...
Rapid perceptual integration of facial expression and emotional body languageHanneke K M Meeren
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, LE 5000, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:16518-23. 2005....
Audio-visual integration in schizophreniaBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Schizophr Res 59:211-8. 2003....
Why bodies? Twelve reasons for including bodily expressions in affective neuroscienceBeatrice de Gelder
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:3475-84. 2009..Subsequent sections discuss available evidence for the neurofunctional basis of facial and bodily expressions as well as neuropsychological and clinical studies of bodily expressions...
Visual recalibration and selective adaptation in auditory-visual speech perception: Contrasting build-up coursesJean Vroomen
Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Neuropsychologia 45:572-7. 2007..This pattern is discussed in terms of an asynchronous interaction between recalibration and selective adaptation processes...
Recognition of facial expressions is influenced by emotional scene gistRuthger Righart
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:264-72. 2008..This advantage was robust against increasing task load. Taken together, the results show that the surrounding scene is an important factor in recognizing facial expressions...
Temporal ventriloquism: sound modulates the flash-lag effectJean Vroomen
Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 30:513-8. 2004..These findings demonstrate that an isolated sound can sharpen the temporal boundaries of a flash and attract its temporal occurrence...
Neural basis of prosopagnosia: an fMRI studyNouchine Hadjikhani
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 16:176-82. 2002..Our study casts light on the important role of FFA and IOG in the network of areas involved in face recognition, and indicates limits of brain plasticity...
Semantic factors influence multisensory pairing: a transcranial magnetic stimulation studyGilles Pourtois
Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neuroreport 13:1567-73. 2002..Our study also illustrates the usefulness of TMS for addressing the role of semantic factors in multi-sensory perception..
Fear detection and visual awareness in perceiving bodily expressionsBernard M C Stienen
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Emotion 11:1182-9. 2011....
Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signalsMarco Tamietto
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, P O Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Nat Rev Neurosci 11:697-709. 2010..Understanding the neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals will clarify the phylogenetic continuity of emotion systems across species and the integration of cortical and subcortical activity in the human brain...
A computational feedforward model predicts categorization of masked emotional body language for longer, but not for shorter, latenciesBernard M C Stienen
Laboratory of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Neural Comput 24:1806-21. 2012....
Facial expressions modulate the time course of long latency auditory brain potentialsGilles Pourtois
Donders Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 14:99-105. 2002..A source localisation analysis performed on the scalp EEG during the time-window corresponding to the P2b component disclosed a single dipole solution in the anterior cingulate cortex...
The newly sighted fail to match seen with feltRichard Held
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Nat Neurosci 14:551-3. 2011..We tested their ability to visually match an object to a haptically sensed sample after sight restoration. We found a lack of immediate transfer, but such cross-modal mappings developed rapidly...
Autonomic reactivity to sensory stimulation is related to consciousness level after severe traumatic brain injuryViona J M Wijnen
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology and Health, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, P O Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Clin Neurophysiol 117:1794-807. 2006..To examine changes in the activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that are related to recovery to consciousness in the post-acute phase after severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI)...
Configuration perception and face memory, and face context effects in developmental prosopagnosiaElisabeth Huis In 't Veld
a Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Cogn Neuropsychol 29:464-81. 2012..Taken together the results indicate that DPs have a deficit in configural processing at the perception stage that may underlie the memory impairment...
Emotions as mind organsBeatrice de Gelder
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Behav Brain Sci 35:147-8. 2012..We challenge this opposition and indicate how adopting psychologism to combat a naturalistic view of emotional mind/brain areas is self-defeating. We briefly develop the alternative view of emotions as mental organs...
Visual motion influences the contingent auditory motion aftereffectJean Vroomen
Tilburg University, Department of Psychology, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Psychol Sci 14:357-61. 2003..When visual motion was combined with a stationary sound, no aftereffect was observed. These findings indicate that there are strong perceptual links between the visual and auditory motion-processing systems...
Fast recognition of social emotions takes the whole brain: interhemispheric cooperation in the absence of cerebral asymmetryMarco Tamietto
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, University of Torino, Via Po 14, 10123 Torino, Italy
Neuropsychologia 45:836-43. 2007....
Seeing fearful body language overcomes attentional deficits in patients with neglectMarco Tamietto
University of Torino, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 19:445-54. 2007....
Similar facial electromyographic responses to faces, voices, and body expressionsMaurice J C M Magnée
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Neuroreport 18:369-72. 2007..We suggest that seeing a facial expression, an emotional body expression or hearing an emotional tone of voice all activate the affect program corresponding to the emotion displayed...
Facial electromyographic responses to emotional information from faces and voices in individuals with pervasive developmental disorderMaurice J C M Magnée
Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1122-30. 2007..We aimed to test both automatic processing of facial affect as well as the integration of auditory and visual emotion cues in individuals with PDD...
Functional asymmetry and interhemispheric cooperation in the perception of emotions from facial expressionsMarco Tamietto
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, University of Turin, Via Po 14, 10123, Turin, Italy
Exp Brain Res 171:389-404. 2006..This shows that emotional congruency is the sufficient condition for the RTE to take place in the intact brain and that the cerebral hemispheres can interact in spite of physical differences between stimuli...
Affective blindsight in the intact brain: neural interhemispheric summation for unseen fearful expressionsMarco Tamietto
Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Via Po 14, 10123 Torino, Italy
Neuropsychologia 46:820-8. 2008..These findings show that non-conscious processing of fear may modulate ongoing conscious evaluation of facial expressions via neural interhemispheric summation even in the intact brain...
Atypical processing of fearful face-voice pairs in Pervasive Developmental Disorder: an ERP studyMaurice J C M Magnée
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, B01 201, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
Clin Neurophysiol 119:2004-10. 2008....
Fear recognition in the voice is modulated by unconsciously recognized facial expressions but not by unconsciously recognized affective picturesBeatrice de Gelder
Donders Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, University of Tilburg, NL 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:4121-6. 2002..This effect obtains for both naturalistic and semantic pairings in the intact field, but is restricted to the naturalistic pairings in the blind field...
Haptic face recognition and prosopagnosiaAndrea R Kilgour
Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 3N4
Neuropsychologia 42:707-12. 2004..These results suggest that face-processing deficits can be found across different input modalities. Our findings also extend the notion of configural processing to haptic face and object recognition...
What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia?Richard Le Grand
Department of Psychology, Kwantlen University College, Canada
Brain Cogn 61:139-58. 2006..The results show that DP is a heterogeneous condition and that impairment in recognizing faces cannot be predicted by poor performance on any one measure of face processing...
Face processing in adolescents with autistic disorder: the inversion and composite effectsJan-Pieter Teunisse
Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center St. Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 52:285-94. 2003....
