Bach, DR;
Schmidt-Daffy, M;
Dolan, RJ;
(2014)
Facial expression influences face identity recognition during the attentional blink.
Emotion
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(6)
1007 - 1013.
10.1037/a0037945.
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Abstract
Emotional stimuli (e.g., negative facial expressions) enjoy prioritized memory access when task relevant, consistent with their ability to capture attention. Whether emotional expression also impacts on memory access when task-irrelevant is important for arbitrating between feature-based and object-based attentional capture. Here, the authors address this question in 3 experiments using an attentional blink task with face photographs as first and second target (T1, T2). They demonstrate reduced neutral T2 identity recognition after angry or happy T1 expression, compared to neutral T1, and this supports attentional capture by a task-irrelevant feature. Crucially, after neutral T1, T2 identity recognition was enhanced and not suppressed when T2 was angry-suggesting that attentional capture by this task-irrelevant feature may be object-based and not feature-based. As an unexpected finding, both angry and happy facial expressions suppress memory access for competing objects, but only angry facial expression enjoyed privileged memory access. This could imply that these 2 processes are relatively independent from one another.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Facial expression influences face identity recognition during the attentional blink. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0037945 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037945 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 The Author(s) This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright of this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Pyschological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. |
| Keywords: | Adult, Attentional Blink, Emotions, Face, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Young Adult |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1452323 |
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