Zhan Minye, Hortensius Ruud, de Gelder Beatrice
Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2015 Oct 15;10(10):e0139768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139768. eCollection 2015.
Emotional signals are perceived whether or not we are aware of it. The evidence so far mostly came from studies with facial expressions. Here, we investigated whether the pattern of non-conscious face expression perception is found for whole body expressions. Continuous flash suppression (CFS) was used to measure the time for neutral, fearful, and angry facial or bodily expressions to break from suppression. We observed different suppression time patterns for emotions depending on whether the stimuli were faces or bodies. The suppression time for anger was shortest for bodily expressions, but longest for the facial expressions. This pattern indicates different processing and detection mechanisms for faces and bodies outside awareness, and suggests that awareness mechanisms associated with dorsal structures might play a role in becoming conscious of angry bodily expressions.
无论我们是否意识到，情感信号都会被感知到。目前的证据大多来自对面部表情的研究。在此，我们调查了全身表情是否也存在无意识面部表情感知模式。连续闪烁抑制（CFS）被用于测量中性、恐惧和愤怒的面部或身体表情从抑制中解脱出来的时间。我们观察到，根据刺激物是面部还是身体，情绪的抑制时间模式有所不同。愤怒表情的抑制时间在身体表情中最短，但在面部表情中最长。这种模式表明，在意识之外，面部和身体存在不同的处理和检测机制，并且表明与背侧结构相关的意识机制可能在感知愤怒的身体表情中发挥作用。
