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Masking the face: Recognition of emotional facial expressions as a function of the parameters of backward masking
Author(s) -
ESTEVES FRANCISCO,
ÖHMAN ARNE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1993.tb01096.x
Subject(s) - backward masking , stimulus onset asynchrony , facial expression , psychology , masking (illustration) , stimulus (psychology) , facial recognition system , visual masking , emotional expression , audiology , speech recognition , pattern recognition (psychology) , cognitive psychology , communication , computer science , visual perception , perception , neuroscience , medicine , visual arts , art
Four experiments are reported investigating recognition of emotional expressions in very briefly presented facial stimulus. The faces were backwardly masked by neutral facial displays and recognition of facial expressions was analyzed as a function of the manipulation of different parameters in the masking procedure. The main conclusion was that stimulus onset asynchrony between target and mask proved to be the principal factor influencing recognition of the masked expressions. In general, confident recognitions of facial expressions required about 100–150 msec, with shorter time for happy than for angry expressions. The manipulation of the duration of both the target and the mask, by itself, had only minimal effects.