Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5041822 Consciousness and Cognition 2017 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

•There is an early encapsulated processing of emotional expressions.•This claim is based on data from cognitive science.•It supports the rich content view of perception.

In this paper I argue that the detection of emotional expressions is, in its early stages, informationally encapsulated. I clarify and defend such a view via the appeal to data from social perception on the visual processing of faces, bodies, facial and bodily expressions. Encapsulated social perception might exist alongside processes that are cognitively penetrated, and that have to do with recognition and categorization, and play a central evolutionary function in preparing early and rapid responses to the emotional stimuli.

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