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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Investigating Emotion Categories Via Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches.

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Personality/Emotion

  • Christiana Westlin
    Northeastern University
  • Bahar Azari
    Northeastern University
  • Ajay Satpute
    Northeastern University
  • J. Benjamin Hutchinson
    University of Oregon
  • Philip Kragel
    University of Colorado Boulder
  • Deniz Erdogmus
    Northeastern University
  • Dana Brooks
    Northeastern University
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Northeastern University

Abstract

Emotion researchers have used supervised machine learning classifiers to discover biomarkers in the brain or body for various emotion categories. In the present study, we critically examine the validity of this approach by contrasting findings from supervised and unsupervised approaches across three datasets measuring the brain, body, and subjective experience.

Emotion