High-Level Face Adaptation Without Awareness
Wendy J. Adams, Katie L.H. Gray, Matthew Garner, Erich W. Graf
Psychological Science · 2010 · Volume 21 · Issue 2
Abstract
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.
Keywords
emotional expression, suppression, adaptation, face processing
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