Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) has traditionally been assumed to rely primarily on high resolution foveal vision. However, accumulating evidence suggests that extrafoveal information may play a crucial role in decoding emotional expressions. Most existing studies have treated the region outside the fovea as a unitary area, leaving unexplored the functional distinction between parafoveal vision and peripheral vision. Previous gaze-contingent studies have, indeed, compared full-vision conditions with either isolated foveal windows or foveal masking without systematically investigating the specific contribution of parafoveal and peripheral regions. It is therefore unclear whether emotion recognition relies predominantly on parafoveal information, on a more peripheral input, or on their interaction.