Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

It is widely believed that certain emotions are universally recognized in facial expressions.
Recent evidence indicates that Western perceptions (eg, scowls as anger) depend on cues …

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …

We review recent work demonstrating consistent context effects during emotion perception.
Visual scenes, voices, bodies, other faces, cultural orientation, and even words shape how …

People believe they see emotion written on the faces of other people. In an instant, simple
facial actions are transformed into information about another's emotional state. The present …

There is remarkable variety in emotional life. Not all mental states referred to by the same
word (eg,“fear”) look alike, feel alike, or have the same neurophysiological signature …

In the present study, we investigated whether context is routinely encoded during emotion
perception. For the first time, we show that people remember the context more often when …

A series of five experiments examined the categorical perception previously found for color
and facial expressions. Using a two-alternative forced-choice recognition memory paradigm …

A variety of studies have demonstrated that organizing stimuli into categories can affect the
way the stimuli are perceived. We explore the influence of categories on perception through …