Faces in commonly experienced configurations enter awareness faster due to their curvature relative to fixation.

ABSTRACT: The extent to which perceptually suppressed face stimuli are still processed has been extensively studied using the continuous flash suppression paradigm (CFS). Studies that rely on breaking CFS (b-CFS), in which the time it takes for an initially suppressed stimulus to become detectable is measured, have provided evidence for relatively complex processing of invisible face stimuli. In contrast, adaptation and neuroimaging studies have shown that perceptually suppressed faces are only processed for a limited set of features, such as its general shape. In this study, we asked whether perceptually suppressed face stimuli presented in their commonly experienced configuration would break suppression faster than when presented in an uncommonly experienced configuration. This study was motivated

SUBMITTER: Moors P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4734451 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature