The Impact of Facial Emotion

VISUAL SEARCH IN A CROWD:
The Impact of facial emotion

Introduction:

The aims of this research study are to determine whether an emotional facial expression is more rapidly located in an array of neutral faces, than the location of a neutral face amongst emotional faces. It endeavours to discover which kind of facial expression in particular is most readily located in an array of neutral faces, as well as determining the influence of the overall number of distractor faces present on the efficiency of target face location.
Human facial expressions across cultures appear not to vary, and the facial muscle movements that signify happiness in one area of the world seem to be the same on the other side of the globe, regardless of levels of isolation (Ekman & Friesen, 1971). Darwin proposed that our facial expressions are an unlearned, innate response that has developed from similar expressions in other animals.
Recent studies of the human limbic system have revealed that particular...