Suppression durations for facial expressions under breaking continuous flash suppression: effects of faces' low-level image properties.

ABSTRACT: Perceptual biases for fearful facial expressions are observed across many studies. According to the low-level, visual-based account of these biases, fear expressions are advantaged in some way due to their image properties, such as low spatial frequency content. However, there is a degree of empirical disagreement regarding the range of spatial frequency information responsible for perceptual biases. Breaking continuous flash suppression (b. CFS) has explored these effects, showing similar biases for detecting fearful facial expressions. Recent findings from a b. CFS study highlight the role of high, rather than low spatial frequency content in determining faces' visibility. The present study contributes to ongoing discussions regarding the efficacy of b. CFS, and shows that the visibility

SUBMITTER: Webb ALM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature