title: Interactions between facial emotion and identity in face processing: evidence based on redundancy gains.
abstract: 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.
authors: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. AXY944@bham.ac.uk
authors: Alla
authors: A
authors: Yankouskaya
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Booth
authors: Glyn
authors: G
authors: Humphreys
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000786:Anger; D004644:Emotions; D005145:Face; D005149:Facial Expression; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time