Gender differences in subliminal affective face priming: A high-density ERP study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Subliminal affective priming effects (SAPEs) refer to the phenomenon by which the presentation of an affective prime stimulus influences the subsequent affective evaluation of a target stimulus. Previous studies have reported that unconsciously processed stimuli affect behavioral performance more than consciously processed stimuli. However, the impact of SAPEs on the face-specific N170 component is unclear. We studied how SAPEs for fearful faces affected the N170 for subsequent supraliminal target faces using event-related potentials (ERPs).

Methods

Japanese adults (n = 44, 20 females) participated in this study. Subliminal prime faces (neutral or fearful) were presented for 17 ms, followed by a backward mask for 283 ms and 800 ms target faces (neutral, emotiona

SUBMITTER: Tanaka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8035456 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature