Distrust before first sight? Examining knowledge- and appearance-based effects of trustworthiness on the visual consciousness of faces.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9303140 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1090-2376 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10538100 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Conscious Cogn Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: San Diego : Academic Press, c1992-
    • Subject Terms:
      Consciousness* ; Attentional Blink*; Humans ; Emotions ; Attention/physiology ; Electroencephalography ; Facial Expression ; Evoked Potentials/physiology
    • Abstract:
      The present EEG study with 32 healthy participants investigated whether affective knowledge about a person influences the visual awareness of their face, additionally considering the impact of facial appearance. Faces differing in perceived trustworthiness based on appearance were associated with negative or neutral social information and shown as target stimuli in an attentional blink task. As expected, participants showed enhanced awareness of faces associated with negative compared to neutral social information. On the neurophysiological level, this effect was connected to differences in the time range of the early posterior negativity (EPN)-a component associated with enhanced attention and facilitated processing of emotional stimuli. The findings indicate that the social-affective relevance of a face based on emotional knowledge is accessed during a phase of attentional enhancement for conscious perception and can affect prioritization for awareness. In contrast, no clear evidence for influences of facial trustworthiness during the attentional blink was found.
      Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
      (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Attentional blink; EEG; Event-related potentials; Facial trustworthiness; Social-affective knowledge; Visual awareness
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20231227 Date Completed: 20240116 Latest Revision: 20240520
    • Publication Date:
      20240521
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.concog.2023.103629
    • Accession Number:
      38150782