Positive facial affect facilitates the identification of famous faces
Positive facial affect facilitates the identification of famous faces
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandl.2004.11.001
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Tranel, D
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作者：
Gallegos, DR;Tranel, D
几条趋同的证据线表明，视觉刺激中情感信号的存在会影响对该刺激的处理。在目前的研究中，我们选择了这个想法，并探索了一个假设，即情感面部表情（快乐）的存在会促进对熟悉面孔的识别。我们研究了两组正常参与者（总N = 54）和左（N = 8）或右（N = 10）颞叶切除术的神经系统患者。当参与者说出熟悉的名人面孔时，他们的反应时间被测量了，这些面孔有快乐的表情或中性的表情。为了支持这一假设，快乐面孔的人的命名速度要快得多，这一效应在正常参与者和两组患者中都得到了体现。在左侧颞叶切除术患者中，这种促进的效应量很大（d = 0.87），这表明这种操作可能对帮助此类患者补偿经常伴随其脑损伤的命名缺陷类型具有实际意义。与最近的其他工作一致，我们的发现表明情绪可以促进视觉识别，可能是通过杏仁核对纹状体外皮层的调节影响。(c) 2004 Elsevier Inc.版权所有。
Several convergent lines of evidence have suggested that the presence of an emotion signal in a visual stimulus can influence processing of that stimulus. In the current study, we picked up on this idea, and explored the hypothesis that the presence of an emotional facial expression (happiness) would facilitate the identification of familiar faces. We studied two groups of normal participants (overall N = 54), and neurological patients with either left (n = 8) or right (n = 10) temporal lobectomies. Reaction times were measured while participants named familiar famous faces that had happy expressions or neutral expressions. In support of the hypothesis, naming was significantly faster for the happy faces, and this effect obtained in the normal participants and in both patient groups. In the patients with left temporal lobectomies, the effect size for this facilitation was large (d = 0.87), suggesting that this manipulation might have practical implications for helping such patients compensate for the types of naming defects that often accompany their brain damage. Consistent with other recent work, our findings indicate that emotion can facilitate visual identification, perhaps via a modulatory influence of the amygdala on extrastriate cortex. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.