High-Level Face Adaptation Without Awareness

When a visual stimulus is suppressed from awareness, processing of the suppressed image is necessarily reduced. Although adaptation to simple image properties such as orientation still occurs, adaptation to high-level properties such as face identity is eliminated. Here we show that emotional facial...

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Published in:Psychological science 2010-02, Vol.21 (2), p.205-210
Main Authors: Adams, Wendy J., Gray, Katie L.H., Garner, Matthew, Graf, Erich W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Adaptation to change
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Amygdala
Attention
Awareness
Emotional adjustment
Emotional expression
Emotional suppression
Emotions
Experimentation
Eyes
Face
Facial Expression
Facial expressions
Female
Figural Aftereffect
Happiness
Humans
Identity
Male
Memory, Short-Term
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perceptual Masking
Psychological effects
Psychophysics
Recognition
Research Reports
Rivalry
Stimuli
Stimulus
Visual communication
Visual perception
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Summary:When a visual stimulus is suppressed from awareness, processing of the suppressed image is necessarily reduced. Although adaptation to simple image properties such as orientation still occurs, adaptation to high-level properties such as face identity is eliminated. Here we show that emotional facial expression continues to be processed even under complete suppression, as indexed by substantial facial expression aftereffects.
ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1177/0956797609359508