Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink

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-...

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Main Authors:	Bach, Dominik R., Schmidt-Daffy, Martin, Dolan, Raymond J.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	American Psychological Association 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242079/

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spelling	pubmed-42420792014-11-24 Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink Bach, Dominik R. Schmidt-Daffy, Martin Dolan, Raymond J. Brief Report 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. American Psychological Association 2014-10-06 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4242079/ /pubmed/25286076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037945 Text en © 2014 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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author	Bach, Dominik R. Schmidt-Daffy, Martin Dolan, Raymond J.
spellingShingle	Bach, Dominik R. Schmidt-Daffy, Martin Dolan, Raymond J. Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
author_facet	Bach, Dominik R. Schmidt-Daffy, Martin Dolan, Raymond J.
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title	Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
title_short	Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
title_full	Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
title_fullStr	Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
title_full_unstemmed	Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink
title_sort	facial expression influences face identity recognition during the attentional blink
description	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.
publisher	American Psychological Association
publishDate	2014
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242079/
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Facial Expression Influences Face Identity Recognition During the Attentional Blink

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