ZTE Communications ›› 2017, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (S2): 3-10.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2017.S2.001

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How Do Humans Perceive Emotion?

LI Wen   

  1. Department of Psychology and Program of Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USA
  • Received:2017-08-02 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2020-04-16
  • About author:LI Wen (wenli@psy.fsu.edu) is an associate professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and the director of the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Florida State University, USA. She received her Ph. D. in psychology from Northwestern University (USA) in 2004 and completed postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the Medical School of Northwestern University in 2008. Her research centers on the interaction between emotion and cognition and their implications in psychopathology. Dr. LI has won multiple awards including a Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. Award (equivalent to Young Investigator Award) from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. She had received research support from the National Institute of Health (R01) and the Department of Defense. Dr. LI currently serves as a standing member of the Cognition ad Perception Study Section for the National Institute of Health, USA.
  • Supported by:
    This work is partially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS, 16K00311)

Abstract:

Emotion carries crucial qualities of the human condition, representing one of the major challenges in artificial intelligence. Research in psychology and neuroscience in the past two to three decades has generated rich insights into the processes underlying human emotion. Cognition and emotion represent the two main pillars of the human psyche and human intelligence. While the human cognitive system and cognitive brain has inspired and informed computer science and artificial intelligence, the future is ripe for the human emotion system to be integrated into artificial intelligence and robotic systems. Here, we review behavioral and neural findings in human emotion perception, including facial emotion perception, olfactory emotion perception, multimodal emotion perception, and the time course of emotion perception. It is our hope that knowledge of how humans perceive emotion will help bring artificial intelligence strides closer to human intelligence.

Key words: emotion perception, faces, smells, time course, neural basis