TY  - JOUR
A1  - Drimalla, Hanna
A1  - Landwehr, Niels
A1  - Hess, Ursula
A1  - Dziobek, Isabel
T1  - From face to face
BT  - the contribution of facial mimicry to cognitive and emotional empathy
JF  - Cognition and Emotion
N2  - Despite advances in the conceptualisation of facial mimicry, its role in the processing of social information is a matter of debate. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between mimicry and cognitive and emotional empathy. To assess mimicry, facial electromyography was recorded for 70 participants while they completed the Multifaceted Empathy Test, which presents complex context-embedded emotional expressions. As predicted, inter-individual differences in emotional and cognitive empathy were associated with the level of facial mimicry. For positive emotions, the intensity of the mimicry response scaled with the level of state emotional empathy. Mimicry was stronger for the emotional empathy task compared to the cognitive empathy task. The specific empathy condition could be successfully detected from facial muscle activity at the level of single individuals using machine learning techniques. These results support the view that mimicry occurs depending on the social context as a tool to affiliate and it is involved in cognitive as well as emotional empathy.
KW  - Facial mimicry
KW  - empathy
KW  - emotional
KW  - cognitive
KW  - complex emotions
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1596068
SN  - 0269-9931
SN  - 1464-0600
VL  - 33
IS  - 8
SP  - 1672
EP  - 1686
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peters, Arne
A1  - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan
T1  - Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth
BT  - a portrait-corpus study
JF  - Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science
N2  - Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.
KW  - language portraits
KW  - embodiment
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - cognitive
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - cultural conceptualisations
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0101
SN  - 0936-5907
SN  - 1613-3641
SN  - 1861-048X
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
SP  - 579
EP  - 608
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -