Rasha Abdel Rahman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1692508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rasha Abdel Rahman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rasha Abdel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahman |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMAN R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8438-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Signals of Communicative Intent Enhance the Impact of Emotional Messages from Human Speakers, While Effects for Robots are Attenuated
The present work investigated humans’ responses to robots’ verbal emotional expressions. To this end, the interplay of agent characteristics and signals of communicative intent on emotional word processing was examined. In two behavioral studies (N1 = 36, N2 = 72), participants watched short videos featuring different agents (humans, androids, and humanoid robots) alongside the auditory presentation of single words of varying valence (negative, n…
The usual miracles: How narrative style affects the processing of counterintuitive concepts
Popular narratives such as myths or fairy tales regularly contain wondrous phenomena (e.g., a talking cat) that can be defined as minimally counterintuitive (MCI) concepts, which violate one category of real-world knowledge. Contradicting intuitive world representations, MCI concepts could appear to make the texts in which they occur more difficult to understand. Yet, fairy tales and myths are among the genres with the most cultural impact and th…
Shades of smiles: Creating variants of smiles from neutral images of real individuals - method and validation
Despite their crucial role in emotion research, facial expression databases primarily contain stimuli of basic emotions, rather than subtle, socially nuanced ones. Here, we introduce a rigorous yet easily applicable pipeline for synthesizing fine-grained emotional expressions—specifically, reward, affiliative, and dominance smiles—from neutral photographs, guided by Facial Action Coding System (FACS) principles and the perspective that expression…
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences
Expressing experiences: Sensorimotor activations and interoceptive sensibility influence which words we choose when speaking
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces
Emotional content reduces the cognitive effort invested in processing the credibility of social (mis)information
Emotionality likely is a key factor affecting our susceptibility to misinformation. However, the mechanisms underlying this observation are not well understood. Specifically, when people derive social information from person-related news, they rely predominantly on emotional content, apparently unperturbed by the credibility of the source. To help explain this bias, we here contrast two hypotheses of information processing reflected in changes in…
An Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity Special Issue of the Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series
Transient and Long-Term Linguistic Influences on Visual Perception: Shifting Brain Dynamics With Memory Consolidation
Linguistic categories can impact visual perception. For instance, learning that two objects have different names can enhance their discriminability. Previous studies have identified a typical pattern of categorical perception, characterized by faster discrimination of stimuli from different categories, a neural mismatch response during early visual processing (100-200 ms), and effects restricted to the right visual field. However, it remains uncl…
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision
Human visual perception is efficient, flexible and context-sensitive. The Bayesian brain view explains this with probabilistic perceptual inference integrating prior experience and knowledge through top-down influences. Advances in machine learning, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have enabled considerable progress in computer vision. Unlike humans, these networks do not yet adaptively draw on meaningful and task-relevant contextual cu…
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials
Morphological facilitation and semantic interference in compound production: An ERP study
Effects of Language on Visual Perception
Visual consciousness of faces in the attentional blink: Knowledge-based effects of trustworthiness dominate over appearance-based impressions
Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip
Affective information about other people's social behavior may prejudice social interactions and bias person judgments. The trustworthiness of person-related information, however, can vary considerably, as in the case of gossip, rumors, lies, or "fake news." Here, we investigated how spontaneous person likability and explicit person judgments are influenced by trustworthiness, employing event-related potentials as indices of emotional brain respo…
Facing good and evil: Early brain signatures of affective biographical knowledge in face recognition
Extracting meaning from faces to understand other people's mental states and intentions, and to quickly adjust our actions accordingly, is a vital aspect of our social interactions. However, not all emotionally relevant attributes of a person are directly observable from facial features or expressions. In this study event-related brain potentials were used to investigate the effects of affective information about a person's biography that cannot …
Semantic priming in the name retrieval of objects and famous faces
Researchers interested in face processing have recently debated whether access to the name of a known person occurs in parallel with retrieval of semantic‐biographical codes, rather than in a sequential fashion. Recently, Schweinberger, Burton, and Kelly (2001) took a failure to obtain a semantic context effect in a manual syllable judgment task on names of famous faces as support for this position. In two experiments, we compared the effects of …
An Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity Special Issue of the Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series
Transient and Long-Term Linguistic Influences on Visual Perception: Shifting Brain Dynamics With Memory Consolidation
Linguistic categories can impact visual perception. For instance, learning that two objects have different names can enhance their discriminability. Previous studies have identified a typical pattern of categorical perception, characterized by faster discrimination of stimuli from different categories, a neural mismatch response during early visual processing (100-200 ms), and effects restricted to the right visual field. However, it remains uncl…
Semantic priming in the name retrieval of objects and famous faces
Researchers interested in face processing have recently debated whether access to the name of a known person occurs in parallel with retrieval of semantic‐biographical codes, rather than in a sequential fashion. Recently, Schweinberger, Burton, and Kelly (2001) took a failure to obtain a semantic context effect in a manual syllable judgment task on names of famous faces as support for this position. In two experiments, we compared the effects of …
Facing good and evil: Early brain signatures of affective biographical knowledge in face recognition
Extracting meaning from faces to understand other people's mental states and intentions, and to quickly adjust our actions accordingly, is a vital aspect of our social interactions. However, not all emotionally relevant attributes of a person are directly observable from facial features or expressions. In this study event-related brain potentials were used to investigate the effects of affective information about a person's biography that cannot …
Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip
Affective information about other people's social behavior may prejudice social interactions and bias person judgments. The trustworthiness of person-related information, however, can vary considerably, as in the case of gossip, rumors, lies, or "fake news." Here, we investigated how spontaneous person likability and explicit person judgments are influenced by trustworthiness, employing event-related potentials as indices of emotional brain respo…
Effects of Language on Visual Perception
Visual consciousness of faces in the attentional blink: Knowledge-based effects of trustworthiness dominate over appearance-based impressions
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials
Morphological facilitation and semantic interference in compound production: An ERP study
Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation
Knowledge-augmented face perception: Prospects for the Bayesian brain-framework to align AI and human vision
Human visual perception is efficient, flexible and context-sensitive. The Bayesian brain view explains this with probabilistic perceptual inference integrating prior experience and knowledge through top-down influences. Advances in machine learning, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have enabled considerable progress in computer vision. Unlike humans, these networks do not yet adaptively draw on meaningful and task-relevant contextual cu…
Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces
Emotional content reduces the cognitive effort invested in processing the credibility of social (mis)information
Emotionality likely is a key factor affecting our susceptibility to misinformation. However, the mechanisms underlying this observation are not well understood. Specifically, when people derive social information from person-related news, they rely predominantly on emotional content, apparently unperturbed by the credibility of the source. To help explain this bias, we here contrast two hypotheses of information processing reflected in changes in…
An Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity Special Issue of the Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series
Transient and Long-Term Linguistic Influences on Visual Perception: Shifting Brain Dynamics With Memory Consolidation
Linguistic categories can impact visual perception. For instance, learning that two objects have different names can enhance their discriminability. Previous studies have identified a typical pattern of categorical perception, characterized by faster discrimination of stimuli from different categories, a neural mismatch response during early visual processing (100-200 ms), and effects restricted to the right visual field. However, it remains uncl…
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences
Expressing experiences: Sensorimotor activations and interoceptive sensibility influence which words we choose when speaking
Signals of Communicative Intent Enhance the Impact of Emotional Messages from Human Speakers, While Effects for Robots are Attenuated
The present work investigated humans’ responses to robots’ verbal emotional expressions. To this end, the interplay of agent characteristics and signals of communicative intent on emotional word processing was examined. In two behavioral studies (N1 = 36, N2 = 72), participants watched short videos featuring different agents (humans, androids, and humanoid robots) alongside the auditory presentation of single words of varying valence (negative, n…
The usual miracles: How narrative style affects the processing of counterintuitive concepts
Popular narratives such as myths or fairy tales regularly contain wondrous phenomena (e.g., a talking cat) that can be defined as minimally counterintuitive (MCI) concepts, which violate one category of real-world knowledge. Contradicting intuitive world representations, MCI concepts could appear to make the texts in which they occur more difficult to understand. Yet, fairy tales and myths are among the genres with the most cultural impact and th…
Shades of smiles: Creating variants of smiles from neutral images of real individuals - method and validation
Despite their crucial role in emotion research, facial expression databases primarily contain stimuli of basic emotions, rather than subtle, socially nuanced ones. Here, we introduce a rigorous yet easily applicable pipeline for synthesizing fine-grained emotional expressions—specifically, reward, affiliative, and dominance smiles—from neutral photographs, guided by Facial Action Coding System (FACS) principles and the perspective that expression…
Psychology (15 works) · Cognitive psychology (13 works) · Neuroscience (10 works) · Perception (9 works) · Communication (7 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (5 works) · Facial expression (5 works)