Moving Faces: Categorization of Dynamic Facial Expressions in American Sign Language by Deaf and Hearing Participants.

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Article

Publication Date

12-14-2006

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Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

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American Sign Language (ASL) uses the face to express grammar and inflection, in addition to emotion. Research in this area has mostly used photographic stimuli. The purpose of this paper is to present data on how deaf signers and hearing non-signers recognize and categorize a variety of communicative facial expressions in ASL using dynamic stimuli rather than static pictures. Stimuli included six expression types chosen because they share overt similarities but express different content. Hearing participants were more accurate in their categorizations but expressed overall lower confidence regarding their performance.

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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006

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