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Interactions between facial emotion and identity in face processing: evidence based on redundancy gains

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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:35 authored by Alla Yankouskaya, David Booth, Glyn Humphreys
Interactions between the processing of emotion expression and form-based information from faces (facial identity) were investigated using the redundant-target paradigm, in which we specifically tested whether identity and emotional expression are integrated in a superadditive manner (Miller, Cognitive Psychology 14:247–279, 1982). In Experiments 1 and 2, participants performed emotion and face identity judgments on faces with sad or angry emotional expressions. Responses to redundant targets were faster than responses to either single target when a universal emotion was conveyed, and performance violated the predictions from a model assuming independent processing of emotion and face identity. Experiment 4 showed that these effects were not modulated by varying interstimulus and nontarget contingencies, and Experiment 5 demonstrated that the redundancy gains were eliminated when faces were inverted. Taken together, these results suggest that the identification of emotion and facial identity interact in face processing.

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Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

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1943-3921

Publisher

Springer

Issue

8

Volume

74

Page range

1692-1711

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-04-24

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-04-24

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