Supramodal neural networks support top-down processing of social signals.

ABSTRACT: The perception of facial and vocal stimuli is driven by sensory input and cognitive top-down influences. Important top-down influences are attentional focus and supramodal social memory representations. The present study investigated the neural networks underlying these top-down processes and their role in social stimulus classification. In a neuroimaging study with 45 healthy participants, we employed a social adaptation of the Implicit Association Test. Attentional focus was modified via the classification task, which compared two domains of social perception (emotion and gender), using the exactly same stimulus set. Supramodal memory representations were addressed via congruency of the target categories for the classification of auditory and visual social stimuli (voices and faces). Fun

SUBMITTER: Sonderfeld M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814753 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature