Communicating and reading emotion with masked faces in the Covid era: A short review of the literature

C Ramdani, M Ogier, A Coutrot - Psychiatry research, 2022 - Elsevier
Face masks have proven to be key to slowing down the SARS-Cov2 virus spread in the
COVID-19 pandemic context. However, wearing face masks is not devoid of “side-effects”, at …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

N Amsah, Z Md Isa, N Ahmad… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, healthcare services have been grossly overwhelmed
by the pandemic. Due to this circumstance, routine care for individuals with type 2 diabetes …

Masked face emotion recognition based on facial landmarks and deep learning approaches for visually impaired people

M Mukhiddinov, O Djuraev, F Akhmedov… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Current artificial intelligence systems for determining a person's emotions rely heavily on lip
and mouth movement and other facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and the forehead …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the impact of face masks on the processing of facial identity, emotion, age, and gender

D Fitousi, N Rotschild, C Pnini, O Azizi - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new challenges for governments and individuals.
Unprecedented efforts at reducing virus transmission launched a novel arena for human …

Reading covered faces

MA Pavlova, AA Sokolov - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no
longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy …

Impact of face masks and sunglasses on emotion recognition in South Koreans

G Kim, SH Seong, SS Hong, E Choi - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, wearing masks has become essential for social
interaction, disturbing emotion recognition in daily life. In the present study, a total of 39 …

The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life

JF Sperber, ER Hart, SV Troller‐Renfree, TW Watts… - Infancy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how exogenous variation in exposure to the COVID‐19 pandemic during
the first year of life is related to infant development, maternal mental health, and perceived …

Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions

M Rinck, MA Primbs, IAM Verpaalen… - … research: Principles and …, 2022 - Springer
Face masks are now worn frequently to reduce the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Their health benefits are undisputable, but covering the lower half of one's face also makes it …

The COVID‐19 pandemic, mask‐wearing, and emotion recognition during late‐childhood

M Chester, RC Plate, T Powell, Y Rodriguez… - Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Face masks are an effective and important tool to prevent the spread of COVID‐19, including
among children. However, occluding parts of the face can impact emotion recognition, which …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of face mask wearing on language processing and emotion recognition in young children

L Bourke, J Lingwood, T Gallagher-Mitchell… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Face mask wearing was an important preventative strategy for the transmission of the
COVID-19 virus. However, the effects that occluding the mouth and nose area with surgical …