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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Ekman Basic Emotions(also: Basic Emotions, Ekman's Six Basic Emotions)
A taxonomy proposed by psychologist Paul Ekman that identifies six cross-culturally recognisable emotional expressions — happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise — as the building blocks of facial affect. The model has been foundational for computer-vision…
EmojiGrid(also: Emoji Grid, EmojiGrid Scale)
A two-dimensional self-report tool, developed by Toet et al. (2018), in which participants rate the emotional content of a stimulus by clicking on a point in a grid whose axes are valence (horizontal) and arousal (vertical). Rows and columns of emoji faces are arranged around…
Emotional Mediation Hypothesis
A theoretical account, originating in work by Palmer and colleagues, that explains cross-modal associations between sensory attributes (such as colors and musical timbres) as being mediated by shared emotional meaning rather than by direct perceptual mapping. For example, people…

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