title: Electrophysiological evidence of facial inversion with rapid serial visual presentation.
abstract: Using measurements of event-related potentials (ERPs) during a facial recognition task, we aimed to investigate the facial inversion effect and the role of time-based attention in processing upright and inverted faces. We presented upright and inverted faces at the T2 (target 2) position using a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. Our results indicate that the N170 component shows the usual face inversion effect (FIE), in which inverted faces elicit larger N170 amplitudes and a longer elicit N170 latency. We also found that upright faces elicit larger P1 amplitudes than inverted faces over the left hemisphere. This study indicates that the N170 and P3, but not the P1, components are modulated by time-based attention. In addition, we found that the N170 amplitude was modulated by an attentional blink (AB) based on behavioral data. These results suggest that the disruption of facial configuration processing caused by inverted faces is relatively independent of attentional resources.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402168, China. wenbo9390@sina.com
authors.forename: Wenbo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Weiqi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Suyong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Wenfeng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Taolin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: Yue-jia
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult