dc.contributor.author
Pritsch, Carla
dc.contributor.author
Telkemeyer, Silke
dc.contributor.author
Mühlenbeck , Cordelia
dc.contributor.author
Liebal, Katja
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T10:39:17Z
dc.date.available
2017-09-27T10:47:49.741Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/20820
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-24119
dc.description.abstract
Rapid detection and recognition of another individual’s emotional state plays
a pivotal role for humans and, most likely, other social species. Proper
reactions contribute to an individual’s survival in potentially dangerous
situations; this is ensured by a preferential attention towards salient cues.
The predisposition to attend to certain categories of affectively salient
stimuli– also referred to as affect-biased attention - is likely shared with
other species, since fast detection of and appropriate reaction to threats is
crucial to survival. We compared human children and one of our close
relatives, Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), and predicted that both look
more attentively and longer at emotionally salient facial expressions of their
own and corresponding other species, compared to neutral faces. However, in
contrast to a bias towards emotions providing relevant information by
indicating a threat, both species preferentially looked at the fear-related,
but not the angry faces of humans and consistently preferred the silent-bared
teeth espressions in orangutans. The differential attention towards certain
expressions might derive from their social function and the need to detect a
potential threat in the environment. Our findings are consistent with claims
rooting this affect-biased attention characteristic of human perception in our
evolutionary history.
en
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12 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Evolutionary developmental biology
dc.subject
Neurophysiology
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::599 Mammalia (Säugetiere)
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::576 Genetik und Evolution
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::573 Einzelne physiologische Systeme bei Tieren
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::571 Physiologie und verwandte Themen
dc.title
Perception of facial expressions reveals selective affect-biased attention in
humans and orangutans
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
Scientific Reports. - 7 (2017), 7782
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1038/s41598-017-07563-4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07563-4
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
de
refubium.funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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FUDOCS_document_000000028041
refubium.note.author
Gefördert durch die DFG und den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Freien
Universität Berlin.
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no
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000008799
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open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
2045-2322