Gaze direction and face orientation modulate perceptual sensitivity to faces under interocular suppression.

ABSTRACT: Faces convey information essential for social interaction. Their importance has prompted suggestions that some facial features may be processed unconsciously. Although some studies have provided empirical support for this idea, it remains unclear whether these findings were due to perceptual processing or to post-perceptual decisional factors. Evidence for unconscious processing of facial features has predominantly come from the Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression (b-CFS) paradigm, which measures the time it takes different stimuli to overcome interocular suppression. For example, previous studies have found that upright faces are reported faster than inverted faces, and direct-gaze faces are reported faster than averted-gaze faces. However, this procedure suffers from important problems

SUBMITTER: Lanfranco RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090921 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature