Lisa Feldman Barrett
Canadian-American psychologist and neuroscientist; Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory; author of How Emotions Are Made.
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Researchers’ prior beliefs about emotion sneak into supposedly objective machine-learning results.
Their wordsWe find that experimenters' prior beliefs & assumptions about emotion sneak into the supposedly "data driven" or "objective" results produced by machine learning.
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Their wordsSaying "You don't have one brain, you have two" is an oversimplification.
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Their wordsIt dismantles the myth that you have a "lizard brain" for instincts, wrapped in a "limbic system" for emotions, topped by a "neocortex" for rationality.
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Their wordsWe find that infants rarely see stereotypical expressions, like frowning in sadness. Instead, infants must learn more complex, many-to-many mappings between facial movements and categories of emotion.
- 21 months earlier
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Their wordsI use facial "configuration" instead of "expression," and emotion "perception" instead of "recognition" or "detection." These more neutral terms carry fewer assumptions.