A new perspective of emotional perception:Integration of facial expressions and body expressions
Previous studies of facial expressions have typically used facial stimuli without the body,while investigations of body expressions have universally used bodily stimuli that retain only the head outline(without facial features).Researchers have sought to investigate the integration of facial and bodily expres-sions by altering the temporal variation and spatial arrangement of the face and somatic presentations,changing the target cues for emotion recognition.Compared to purely emotional face perception,face-body emotion integration showed significant emotion enhancement effects,plasticity in emotion perception,and individual differences in emotion processing strategies.Some current models with two separate processing pathways,dorsal and ventral,describe mechanisms of face-body integration but neglect the role of emotion and movement in integrated processing.In the future,there is a need to investigate further the character-istics of face-body integration at different stages of processing,to explore the characteristics of face-body emotion integration in individuals with emotion processing disorders;and to focus on individual differences in face-body emotion processing.