Understanding chimpanzee facial expression: insights into the evolution of communication
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To understand the evolution of emotional communication, comparative research on facial expression similarities between humans and related species is essential. Chimpanzees display a complex, flexible facial expression repertoire with many physical and functional similarities to humans. This paper reviews what is known about these facial expression repertoires, discusses the importance of social organization in understanding the meaning of different expressions, and introduces a new coding system, the ChimpFACS, and describes how it can be used to determine homologies between human and chimpanzee facial expressions. Finally, it reviews previous studies on the categorization of facial expressions by chimpanzees using computerized tasks, and discusses the importance of configural processing for this skill in both humans and chimpanzees. Future directions for understanding the evolution of emotional communication will include studies on the social function of facial expressions in ongoing social interactions, the development of facial expression communication and more studies that examine the perception of these important social signals.
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Chimpanzees have strikingly similar underlying mimetic musculature in their faces to humans.
“Humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom, namely chimpanzees, have strikingly similar underlying mimetic musculature in their faces (Parr and Waller, 2006).”
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Aversive responses, including feelings of fear or anxiety, are modulated by hardwired neural circuits that share common neuroarchitectures among mammals.
“Aversive responses, including feelings of fear or anxiety, are modulated by hardwired neural circuits that share common neuroarchitectures among mammals (Le Doux, 2012;Parr and Waller, 2006).”
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The Natural Ethology section discusses fear-related facial displays across mammals, but not the neural circuits governing fear or anxiety. The section on facial-expression categorization mentions neural systems for processing faces, not hardwired aversive-response circuits or shared mammalian neuroarchitecture. Searches for fear and anxiety circuitry found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Parr, L. A., & Waller, B. M.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Venue
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-12-01
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 221-228
- ISSN
- 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-5024
- PMC
- PMC2555422
- OpenAlex
- W2125674694
- Cited by
- 160
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 0.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University (R01-MH068791, -00165, RR 00165)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH068791)
- National Center for Research Resources (RR-00 165, P51RR000165)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- emotional communication, evolution of communication, configural processing, facial expression categorization, social organization
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Animals, Animal Communication, Behavior, Animal, Pan troglodytes, Biological Evolution, Facial Expression, Humans, Social Behavior, Social Perception
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