Brain activity with reading sentences and emoticons - An fMRI study on verbal and nonverbal communication

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作者：

Yuasa, Masahide ^{[1
]}

Saito, Keiichi ^{[2
]}

Mukawa, Naoki ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] School of Information Environment, Tokyo Denki University, Inzai, Chiba 270-1382

[2] Research Center for Advanced Technologies, Tokyo Denki University, Inzai, Chiba 270-1382

来源：

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems | 2008年 / 128卷 / 12期

关键词：

Emoticon; Face; fMRI; Human computer interaction; Nonverbal communication;

D O I：

10.1541/ieejeiss.128.1797

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摘要：

In this paper, we describe a person's brain activity when he/she sees an emoticon at the end of a sentence. An emoticon consists of some characters that resemble the human face and expresses a sender's emotion. With the help of a computer network, we use e-mail, messenger, avatars and so on, in order to convey what we wish to, to a receiver. Moreover, we send an emotional expression by using an emoticon at the end of a sentence. In this research, we investigate the effect of an emoticon as nonverbal information, using an fMRI study. The experimental results show that the right and left inferior frontal gyrus were activated and we detect a sentence with an emoticon as the verbal and nonverval information. © 2008 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.

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页码：1797 / 1803+11

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