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 expression continues to be processed even under complete suppression, as indexed by substantial facial expression aftereffects.
Adams
Wendy J
WJ
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. w.adams@soton.ac.uk
Gray
Katie L H
KL
Garner
Matthew
M
Graf
Erich W
EW
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011601:Psychophysics