Influence of stimulus manipulation on conscious awareness of emotional facial expressions in the match-to-sample paradigm.

ABSTRACT: The conscious perception of emotional facial expressions plays an indispensable role in social interaction. However, previous psychological studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding whether conscious awareness is greater for emotional expressions than for neutral expressions. Furthermore, whether this phenomenon is attributable to emotional or visual factors remains unknown. To investigate these issues, we conducted five psychological experiments to test the conscious perception of emotional and neutral facial expressions using the match-to-sample paradigm. Facial stimuli were momentarily presented in the peripheral visual fields while participants read simultaneously presented letters in the central visual fields. The participants selected a perceived face from nine samples. T

SUBMITTER: Sato W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10676436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature