Facial mimicry interference reduces working memory accuracy for facial emotion expressions.

ABSTRACT: Facial mimicry, the tendency to imitate facial expressions of other individuals, has been shown to play a critical role in the processing of emotion expressions. At the same time, there is evidence suggesting that its role might change when the cognitive demands of the situation increase. In such situations, understanding another person is dependent on working memory. However, whether facial mimicry influences working memory representations for facial emotion expressions is not fully understood. In the present study, we experimentally interfered with facial mimicry by using established behavioral procedures, and investigated how this interference influenced working memory recall for facial emotion expressions. Healthy, young adults (N = 36) performed an emotion expression n-back paradigm w

SUBMITTER: Holmer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11207140 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature