Meanings of facial mimicry in English

This makes them the ideal population to study whether facial mimicry is necessary for emotion understanding.

Our findings suggest that early aversive experiences alter not only emotion recognition but also facial mimicry of emotions.

However, dissociation in facial mimicry during the perception of own and others' emotions has not been investigated so far.

Background: Facial mimicry is crucial in the recognition of others' emotional state.

Facial mimicry is described by embodied cognition theories as a human mirror system-based neural mechanism underpinning emotion recognition.

Facial expression of emotions is a powerful vehicle for communicating information about others' emotional states and it normally induces facial mimicry in the observers.