Partial face visibility and facial cognition: event-related potential and eye tracking investigation.

ABSTRACT: Face masks became a part of everyday life during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Previous studies showed that the face cognition mechanism involves holistic face processing, and the absence of face features could lower the cognition ability. This is opposed to the experience during the pandemic, when people could correctly recognize faces, although the mask covered a part of the face. This paper clarifies the partial face cognition mechanism of the full and partial faces based on the electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye-tracking data. We observed two event-related potentials, P3a in the frontal lobe and P3b in the parietal lobe, as subcomponents of P300. The amplitude of both P3a and P3b were lowered when the eyes were invisible, and the amplitude of P3a evoked by the nose covered was larger than t

SUBMITTER: Chanpornpakdi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11893966 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature