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S of expression rather than PX-478MedChemExpress PX-478 having encoders instructed to express low, intermediate, and high emotional expressions. However, regarding the facial features this does not propose a strong limitation, since muscles can only do specific movements, which are catalogued in the FACS [15]; it is only the intensity of muscle contraction that changes. For example, when making a sad facial expression as intense as possible, it always starts out as a subtle expression increasing to full intensity. Hence, it is legitimate to extract sequences and still be able to claim to have varying intensity levels. Yet, future research could instruct encoders to pose varying intensities and FACS code them to verify the present results. The approach taken to create the stimuli within the current research led to a further limitation. That is, offsets of the facial expressions of emotions were not displayed within the videos, which is obviously unlike what we encounter in everyday social interactions. It would be necessary for future research to instruct encoders to portray varying intensities of facial expression while recording them, as suggested above, and document onsets, the duration of the emotional display, as well as offsets of the facial emotional expressions. To increase ecological validity even further than including the whole range of the expressions from onset to offset, future research should also aim to produce videos of varying intensity portraying individuals expressing jir.2012.0140 emotions facially that have been elicited in thosePLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147112 January 19,22 /Validation of the ADFES-BIVindividuals, i.e. truly felt emotions, to further increase ecological validity and tackle some of the issues raised in this discussion. Subjective ratings alongside FACS coding would be necessary to assure the elicited emotions equal the target emotion.Potential Applications for the ADFES-BIVA variety of application options exist for the ADFES-BIV. The ADFES-BIV could find application in multimodal emotion wcs.1183 recognition experiments, since emotion recognition is a multisensory process (e.g. [89]). As in social interactions next to visual emotional information usually also auditory emotional and contextual information is present [90] the ADFES-BIV could for example get combined with the Montreal Affective Voices set [91]. Where multisensory emotion recognition has been investigated including high intensity facial expressions [89], the current stimulus set Quisinostat site allows for extension to subtle emotional expressions. The ADFES-BIV could also be applied to investigate group difference between clinical samples and controls in facial emotion recognition. For example, an unpublished pilot study has shown suitability for the application of the ADFES-BIV as an emotion recognition task in high-functioning autism. Future research could further apply the ADFES-BIV in neuroscientific research. For example, since most of the research is conducted using full intensity facial expressions research questions open to answer are whether the intensity of the observed expression reflects in the intensity of the resulting brain activity or if there even is a negative correlations, as subtler expressions are harder to decode, more neural processing is needed. As suggested by an anonymous reviewer, the ADFES-BIV could also be of interest for research on pre-attentive or non-conscious emotion perception. Facial emotional expressions of varying intensity could be used instead of alter.S of expression rather than having encoders instructed to express low, intermediate, and high emotional expressions. However, regarding the facial features this does not propose a strong limitation, since muscles can only do specific movements, which are catalogued in the FACS [15]; it is only the intensity of muscle contraction that changes. For example, when making a sad facial expression as intense as possible, it always starts out as a subtle expression increasing to full intensity. Hence, it is legitimate to extract sequences and still be able to claim to have varying intensity levels. Yet, future research could instruct encoders to pose varying intensities and FACS code them to verify the present results. The approach taken to create the stimuli within the current research led to a further limitation. That is, offsets of the facial expressions of emotions were not displayed within the videos, which is obviously unlike what we encounter in everyday social interactions. It would be necessary for future research to instruct encoders to portray varying intensities of facial expression while recording them, as suggested above, and document onsets, the duration of the emotional display, as well as offsets of the facial emotional expressions. To increase ecological validity even further than including the whole range of the expressions from onset to offset, future research should also aim to produce videos of varying intensity portraying individuals expressing jir.2012.0140 emotions facially that have been elicited in thosePLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147112 January 19,22 /Validation of the ADFES-BIVindividuals, i.e. truly felt emotions, to further increase ecological validity and tackle some of the issues raised in this discussion. Subjective ratings alongside FACS coding would be necessary to assure the elicited emotions equal the target emotion.Potential Applications for the ADFES-BIVA variety of application options exist for the ADFES-BIV. The ADFES-BIV could find application in multimodal emotion wcs.1183 recognition experiments, since emotion recognition is a multisensory process (e.g. [89]). As in social interactions next to visual emotional information usually also auditory emotional and contextual information is present [90] the ADFES-BIV could for example get combined with the Montreal Affective Voices set [91]. Where multisensory emotion recognition has been investigated including high intensity facial expressions [89], the current stimulus set allows for extension to subtle emotional expressions. The ADFES-BIV could also be applied to investigate group difference between clinical samples and controls in facial emotion recognition. For example, an unpublished pilot study has shown suitability for the application of the ADFES-BIV as an emotion recognition task in high-functioning autism. Future research could further apply the ADFES-BIV in neuroscientific research. For example, since most of the research is conducted using full intensity facial expressions research questions open to answer are whether the intensity of the observed expression reflects in the intensity of the resulting brain activity or if there even is a negative correlations, as subtler expressions are harder to decode, more neural processing is needed. As suggested by an anonymous reviewer, the ADFES-BIV could also be of interest for research on pre-attentive or non-conscious emotion perception. Facial emotional expressions of varying intensity could be used instead of alter.