At the latest European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) in Lausanne, Switzerland, the largest and most prestigious European conference in the area of vision research, IUS was represented by the study conducted by Dr. Ervin Poljac and recent IUS-graduate Mr. Halit Revaha Zini. The study dealt with the perception of facial emotional expressions in people with a high level of autistic traits.
The investigators observed altered emotional processing in these individuals with regard to accuracy and sensitivity of the perception of the six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise). The abstract is published in a special issue of the scientific journal Perception.
'It pays off to make an effort and be involved in something that in principle was not required for my graduation, both because of the international exposure as well as a valuable research experience' commented Mr. Zini.
The Emotion Recognition Task. Participants have to choose one of the six basic emotions. The original task is by Montagne et al. (2007)*. Here presented is a sample trial of the task adapted by Ervin Poljac and Osman Gürsoy.
*Montagne B, Kessels RP, De Haan EH, and Perrett DI (2007) The Emotion Recognition Task: A paradigm to measure the perception of facial emotional expressions at different intensities. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 104: 589-598.
