[Dependence of plasticity of set to emotional facial expression on working memory load].
The effect of increasing working memory load (by introduction of an additional cognitive task into the experimental context) on the recognition of emotional facial expression in a visual set paradigm was studied in healthy adult subjects. The link between plasticity of the cognitive set to emotional facial expression and the working memory was revealed. It was found that an increase in the working memory load was associated with a delay of set shifting in a modified situation. The set became more rigid which appeared as increasing number of trials with erroneous assessments of facial expression in the form of contrast or assimilative illusions. The significance of inner states and priming for the insight into psychophysiological mechanisms of erroneous assessments under conditions of the working memory loading is discussed in terms of the concept of the integration of bottom-up and top-down streams.
Kostandov
E A
EA
Kurova
N S
NS
Cheremushkin
E A
EA
Petrenko
N E
NE
Ashkinazi
M L
ML
Iakovenko
I A
IA
D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011930:Reaction Time; D012718:Set, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception