If you took Amy's workshop, you may have eventually found yourself looking for some tell-tale movements as a neutral face picture changed to one with a specific expression. The start of the wrinkles around the nose denoting disgust, or the lengthening of a face showing surprise, as the eyebrows arch and the jaw drops.
The Science Daily article "The Enigmatic Face: Motion Is The Key To Understanding Expressions" cites a study that seems to indicate that it's not so much seeing the finished facial expression that triggers our recognition, but rather our experience of the movement of the face in the direction of that expression - meaning that we may be detecting, and reacting to, these expressions even more quickly than we realize!
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