Effects of emotion words activation and satiation on facial expression perception: evidence from behavioral and ERP investigations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study investigated the impact of emotion concepts obtained from external environmental experiences on the perception of facial expressions by manipulating the activation and satiation of emotion words, which was based on the argument between basic emotion theory and constructed emotion theory.

Methods

Experiment 1 explored the effects of emotion activation on happy, disgusted, emotion-label words and emotion-laden words in a facial expression judgment task through behavioral experimentation. Experiment 2 explored the effect of semantic satiation on emotion-label words and emotion-laden words using the event-related potential technique.

Results

Experiment 1 found that facial expression perception was influenced by both types of emotion words and s

SUBMITTER: Xu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10425554 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature