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Timothy E. Allmond, Jr. Senior Recital, featuring the Ebony Expressions, College of William and Mary
No full textAudio recording of the senior recital by Timothy E. Allmond, Jr., featuring the Ebony Expressions, that was a requirement for his music major. The recording features five spiritual selections by Ebony Expressions, five selections by Mr. Allmond, and five selections from "Treemonisha" by Scott Joplin. The performance took place in Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall. From Item 2012.198, Box 4, Series 2, University Archives Audiovisual Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Transmission of facial expressions of emotion co-evolved with their efficient decoding in the brain: behavioral and brain evidence
No full textCompetent social organisms will read the social signals of their peers. In primates, the face has evolved to transmit the organism's internal emotional state. Adaptive action suggests that the brain of the receiver has co-evolved to efficiently decode expression signals. Here, we review and integrate the evidence for this hypothesis. With a computational approach, we co-examined facial expressions as signals for data transmission and the brain as receiver and decoder of these signals. First, we show in a model observer that facial expressions form a lowly correlated signal set. Second, using time-resolved EEG data, we show how the brain uses spatial frequency information impinging on the retina to decorrelate expression categories. Between 140 to 200 ms following stimulus onset, independently in the left and right hemispheres, an information processing mechanism starts locally with encoding the eye, irrespective of expression, followed by a zooming out to processing the entire face, followed by a zooming back in to diagnostic features (e.g. the opened eyes in "fear", the mouth in "happy"). A model categorizer demonstrates that at 200 ms, the left and right brain have represented enough information to predict behavioral categorization performance
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["The Ebony Nutcracker" tape 1 of 2]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Christmas and Kwanzaa season performance of "The Ebony Nutcracker" produced and performed in collaboration with Etta's Dance Expressions. The performance was held over the weekend of December 9-10th, 2000 at the Naomi Bruton Theatre. The footage shows children performing an adapted version of the Nutcracker ballet that takes the dancers to Africa
["The Ebony Nutcracker" tape 1 of 2]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Christmas and Kwanzaa season performance of "The Ebony Nutcracker" produced and performed in collaboration with Etta's Dance Expressions. The performance was held over the weekend of December 9-10th, 2000 at the Naomi Bruton Theatre. The footage shows children performing an adapted version of the Nutcracker ballet that takes the dancers to Africa
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["The Ebony Nutcracker" tape 2 of 2]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Christmas and Kwanzaa season performance of "The Ebony Nutcracker" produced and performed in collaboration with Etta's Dance Expressions. The performance was held over the weekend of December 9-10th, 2000 at the Naomi Bruton Theatre. The footage shows children performing an adapted version of the Nutcracker ballet that takes the dancers to Africa
["The Ebony Nutcracker" tape 2 of 2]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Christmas and Kwanzaa season performance of "The Ebony Nutcracker" produced and performed in collaboration with Etta's Dance Expressions. The performance was held over the weekend of December 9-10th, 2000 at the Naomi Bruton Theatre. The footage shows children performing an adapted version of the Nutcracker ballet that takes the dancers to Africa
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["The Ebony Nutcracker" performance video, 1 of 2]
No full textVideo footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during Etta's Dance Expressions "Ebony Nutcracker" performance held on December 8th 2001. The footage shows a children's performance of the Nutcracker with a cast and ensemble of black dancers and drummers in place of a classical rendition
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["The Ebony Nutcracker" performance video, 2 of 2]
No full textVideo footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during Etta's Dance Expressions "Ebony Nutcracker" performance held on December 8th 2001. The footage shows a children's performance of the Nutcracker with a cast and ensemble of black dancers and drummers in place of a classical rendition
["The Ebony Nutcracker" performance video, 1 of 2]
No full textVideo footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during Etta's Dance Expressions "Ebony Nutcracker" performance held on December 8th 2001. The footage shows a children's performance of the Nutcracker with a cast and ensemble of black dancers and drummers in place of a classical rendition
Matching faces with emotional expressions
No full textThere is some evidence that faces with a happy expression are recognized better than faces with other expressions. However, little is known about whether this happy-face advantage also applies to perceptual face matching, and whether similar differences exist among other expressions. Using a sequential matching paradigm, we systematically compared the effects of seven basic facial expressions on identity recognition. Identity matching was quickest when a pair of faces had an identical happy/sad/neutral expression, poorer when they had a fearful/surprise/angry expression, and poorest when they had a disgust expression. Faces with a happy/sad/fear/surprise expression were matched faster than those with an anger/disgust expression when the second face in a pair had a neutral expression. These results demonstrate that effects of facial expression on identity recognition are not limited to happy-faces when a learned face is immediately tested. The results suggest different influences of expression in perceptual matching and long-term recognition memory
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