Comparing emotional recognition in written words versus facial expressions

Emotion Recognition

Recognition of written expressions vs. facial expression of happiness

Recommendations for further study

The mechanisms by which words are visually recognized have not themselves been sufficiently researched. Research into the physical response of the brain to visual stimulus of a written word is unable to show conclusively exactly what occurs simply for the mind to extract meaning from the word (Ven der Haagen et al. 2009). This says nothing of words with emotional content, or the memory processes that might be activated and/or affected by visual word recognition. This would provide a prime area for further study to determine the relationship between emotional recognition and empathy, sa opposed to pure conscious intelligence.

Similarly, the psychological study of visual word recognition has had too narrow a focus to produce a reliably accurate explanation of the phenomenon (Yap and Balota 2009). Further study is needed into the basic mechanisms of word recognition before it can be fully integrated with emotional recognition explanations.

Comparison of results