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- Can blind people sense emotions?
- How do blind people express emotion?
- How does a blind person recognize another person?
Can blind people sense emotions?
“Spontaneously produced facial expressions of emotion of both congenitally and non-congenitally blind individuals are the same as for sighted individuals in the same emotionally evocative situations.” said study author David Matsumoto, PhD, of San Francisco State University.
How do blind people express emotion?
In summary, old and recent studies revealed that blind and sighted people spontaneously produce the same type of facial expression, particularly for basic emotions like happiness, sadness and fear.
How does a blind person recognize another person?
Caption: MIT researchers have found that the fusiform face area, which is specialized to recognize faces, lights up in people who have been blind since birth when they touch a three-dimensional model of a face with their hands.
