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Interference between Conscious and Unconscious Facial Expression Information

There is ample evidence to show that many types of visual information, including emotional information, could be processed in the absence of visual awareness. For example, it has been shown that masked subliminal facial expressions can induce priming and adaptation effects. However, stimulus made in...

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Autores principales: Ye, Xing, He, Sheng, Hu, Ying, Yu, Yong Qiang, Wang, Kai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25162153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105156
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description There is ample evidence to show that many types of visual information, including emotional information, could be processed in the absence of visual awareness. For example, it has been shown that masked subliminal facial expressions can induce priming and adaptation effects. However, stimulus made invisible in different ways could be processed to different extent and have differential effects. In this study, we adopted a flanker type behavioral method to investigate whether a flanker rendered invisible through Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS) could induce a congruency effect on the discrimination of a visible target. Specifically, during the experiment, participants judged the expression (either happy or fearful) of a visible face in the presence of a nearby invisible face (with happy or fearful expression). Results show that participants were slower and less accurate in discriminating the expression of the visible face when the expression of the invisible flanker face was incongruent. Thus, facial expression information rendered invisible with CFS and presented a different spatial location could enhance or interfere with consciously processed facial expression information.
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spelling pubmed-41465172014-08-29 Interference between Conscious and Unconscious Facial Expression Information Ye, Xing He, Sheng Hu, Ying Yu, Yong Qiang Wang, Kai PLoS One Research Article There is ample evidence to show that many types of visual information, including emotional information, could be processed in the absence of visual awareness. For example, it has been shown that masked subliminal facial expressions can induce priming and adaptation effects. However, stimulus made invisible in different ways could be processed to different extent and have differential effects. In this study, we adopted a flanker type behavioral method to investigate whether a flanker rendered invisible through Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS) could induce a congruency effect on the discrimination of a visible target. Specifically, during the experiment, participants judged the expression (either happy or fearful) of a visible face in the presence of a nearby invisible face (with happy or fearful expression). Results show that participants were slower and less accurate in discriminating the expression of the visible face when the expression of the invisible flanker face was incongruent. Thus, facial expression information rendered invisible with CFS and presented a different spatial location could enhance or interfere with consciously processed facial expression information. Public Library of Science 2014-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4146517/ /pubmed/25162153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105156 Text en © 2014 Ye et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_full_unstemmed Interference between Conscious and Unconscious Facial Expression Information
title_short Interference between Conscious and Unconscious Facial Expression Information
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25162153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105156
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