Enhanced Visual Short-Term Memory for Angry Faces
Enhanced Visual Short-Term Memory for Angry Faces
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DOI：
10.1037/a0013895
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
Raymond, Jane E.
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作者：
Jackson, Margaret C.;Wu, Chia-Yun;Raymond, Jane E.
虽然一些观点认为面部知觉是独立加工的，但最近的研究表明这两个领域是相互作用的。作者通过评估视觉短期记忆（VSTM）任务中的识别表现，考察了表情-身份在VSTM中的相互作用。在VSTM任务中，面部身份是相关的，而表情是无关的。使用1到4张脸的研究阵列和1000毫秒的保留间隔，作者测量了对刚刚看到的脸的识别准确性。结果表明，愤怒面孔的记忆量显著高于快乐面孔和中性面孔的记忆量。此外，该研究还提供了证据，排除了基于生理唤醒、编码机会、面部可辨别性、低水平特征识别、表情强度或特定面部设置的解释。也许被特定的愤怒表情激活的过程会增强VSTM，因为对愤怒的人的身份的记忆具有特定的行为相关性。
Although some views of face perception posit independent processing of face identity and expression, recent studies suggest interactive processing of these 2 domains. The authors examined expression-identity interactions in visual short-term memory (VSTM) by assessing recognition performance in a VSTM task in which face identity was relevant and expression was irrelevant. Using study arrays of between I and 4 faces and a 1,000-ms retention interval, the authors measured recognition accuracy for just-seen faces. Results indicated that significantly more angry face identities can be stored in VSTM than happy or neutral face identities. Furthermore, the study provides evidence to exclude accounts for this angry face benefit based on physiological arousal, opportunity to encode, face discriminability, low-level feature recognition, expression intensity, or specific face sets. Perhaps processes activated by the presence of specifically angry expressions enhance VSTM because memory for the identities of angry people has particular behavioral relevance.