H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

LEAS · Looking for Emotions in the Absence of Sight

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-12-01 → 2023-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 166 320 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Looking for Emotions in the Absence of Sight

Affective capabilities play a pivotal role in human social interactions and are indispensable for optimal daily functioning. Nonverbal visual cues, such as facial expressions and body postures, frequently convey emotional signals, relying on the sense of sight for detection. This prompts intriguing questions about how emotions are experienced and perceived in the absence of vision, particularly in congenitally blind individuals. How do they articulate emotions through language? Is their representation of affective states in the body distinct from that of sighted individuals? Do they retain the same neural mechanisms for emotional coding? Notably, there are currently around 2 billion visually impaired individuals globally, according to the World Health Organization. Given the pivotal role of vision in social interactions, it prompts reflection on whether the absence of sight leads to enduring changes in the psychological well-being of blind individuals. Understanding how sensory deprivation impacts their social existence becomes imperative to address this pertinent societal issue and tailor effective rehabilitative strategies. The LEAS project's innovative framework successfully addressed these questions, advancing knowledge in the realm of sensory and affective neuroscience by mapping emotions across language, body, and brain. The LEAS project was designed with the explicit goal of unraveling how visual experience shapes the development of emotional representation. The project provided a comprehensive, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary description of the role of sensory experience in emotion processing, which had not been performed before. Indeed, the study of sensory deprived people represents a challenge for researchers, as it requires the ideation of ad hoc devices and experimental paradigms. Yet, it offers a compelling opportunity to address fundamental questions about human functioning. In LEAS, we developed novel strategies to capture the inner emotional experience of blind individuals that can be applied to a gamut of conditions that have not been accessible before.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Affective abilities are crucial for social interactions, as understanding, predicting and responding to emotional signals is necessary for the optimal functioning of daily life. Of note, emotion recognition relies on the detection of salient information, a task chiefly accomplished through vision. As a matter of fact, affective signals are largely conveyed through nonverbal communication, and can be perceived exclusively through sight, as the redness on the cheeks when feeling embarrassed. Indeed, previous behavioral evidence and functional brain data point to the crucial role of sight in emotional processing. Therefore, a question naturally arises: how emotions are experienced/perceived in absence of vision? Specifically, how do congenitally blind individuals describe emotions through language? Is their representation of affective states in the body different from a sighted subject? Do they retain the same mechanisms of emotional coding in the brain? To answer these questions, the proposal (1) will explore the emotion ontology of sighted and congenitally blind individuals, revealing to what extent emotion semantics develops independently from the sense of vision; (2) will study how much the representation of emotional bodily sensations depends on sight; (3) will investigate whether the stream of affect is differently encoded in the brain of sighted and blind individuals. The action will adopt an interdisciplinary approach, exploiting methods ranging from computational linguistics to psychological assessment, as well as from behavioral to neuroimaging investigations. The innovative framework here proposed will advance our knowledge of sensory deprivation and emotion by mapping affective states in language, body and brain. Importantly, the current action will highlight factors influencing the psychological wellbeing of visually impaired subjects and provide new insights to foster their inclusion in a society which strongly depends on sight.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · LOUVAIN LA NEUVEКоординаторБелгия