Research Article

Emotional Expression Processing and Depressive Symptomatology: Eye-Tracking Reveals Differential Importance of Lower and Middle Facial Areas of Interest

Table 1

Follow-up t-tests for two-way interaction between emotion and AOIs.

EmotionLowerMiddleUpper

Anger
Middle8.655
Noncore14.9324.789−0.398
Upper11.3264.831

Fear
Middle5.418
Noncore14.0756.3114.012
Upper16.26911.894

Happiness
Middle4.454
Noncore15.1356.3170.467
Upper14.2718.200

Neutral
Middle3.464
Noncore11.0905.3663.940∗
Upper15.28810.324

Sadness
Middle5.623
Noncore13.2645.0160.816
Upper10.6516.287

significant at the 0.00167, Bonferroni correction.