Face to face with emotion: Holistic face processing is modulated by emotional state

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-102

  Curby, Kim M ^a   Johnson, Kareem J ^a   Tyson, Alyssa ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional state; Face recognition; Global processing; Holistic processing; Local processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FACE; FACE PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858265437     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.555752     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Basso, M. R., Schefft, B. K., Ris, M. D. and Dember, W. N. 1996. Mood and global-local visual processing. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society, 2(3): 249-255.
2. Bechara, A., Damasio, H. and Damasio, A. R. 2000. Emotion, decision making and the orbitofrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 10(3): 295-307.
3. Carey, S. 1992. Becoming a face expert. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 335: 95-103.
4. Derryberry, D. and Reed, M. A. 1998. Anxiety and attentional focusing: Trait, state and hemispheric influences. Personality and Individual Differences, 25: 745-761.
5. R. Franek, T. Meltzer, C. Maier, E. Olson, & J. Doherty 2007. The Princeton Review: The best 366 colleges 2008 Edition. New York, NY: Random House, Inc.
6. Fredrickson, B. L. and Branigan, C. 2005. Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires. Cognition and Emotion, 19(3): 313-332.
7. Gable, P. A. and Harmon-Jones, E. 2008. Approach-motivated positive affect reduces breadth of attention. Psychological Science, 19(5): 476-482.
8. Gable, P. A. and Harmon-Jones, E. 2010a. The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation. Cognition and Emotion, 24(2): 322-337.
9. Gable, P. A. and Harmon-Jones, E. 2010b. The blues broaden, but the nasty narrows: Attentional consequences of negative affects low and high in motivational intensity. Psychological Science, 21(2): 211-215.
10. Gasper, K. and Clore, G. L. 2002. Attending to the big picture: Mood and global versus local processing of visual information. Psychological Science, 13(1): 34-40.
11. Gauthier, I. and Tarr, M. J. 2002. Unraveling mechanisms for expert object recognition: Bridging brain activity and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(2): 431-446.
12. Hills, P. J. and Lewis, M. B. 2009. A spatial frequency account of the detriment that local processing of Navon letters has on face recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1427-1442.
13. Izard, C. E. 1997. Human emotions, New York, NY: Plenum Press.
14. Johnson, K. J. and Fredrickson, B. L. 2005. We all look the same to me": Positive emotions eliminate the own-race bias in face recognition. Psychological Science, 16(11): 875-881.
15. Johnson, K. J., Waugh, C. E., & Fredrickson, B. L. 2010. Smile to see the forest: Facially expressed positive emotions broaden cognition. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 299 - 321.
16. Joseph, R. M. and Tanaka, J. 2003. Holistic and part-based face recognition in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 44(4): 529-542.
17. Maclin, O. H., Maclin, K. M. and Malpass, R. S. 2001. Race, arousal, exposure, and delay: An examination of factors moderating face recognition. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 7(1): 134-152.
18. Macrae, C. N. and Lewis, H. L. 2002. Do I know you? Processing orientation and face recognition. Psychological Science, 13(2): 194-196.
19. Martin, D. and Macrae, C. N. 2009. Processing style an person recognition: Exploring the face inversion effect. Visual Cognition, 18(2): 161-170.
20. Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C. and Butz, D. A. 2005. Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19: 545-567.
21. Michel, C., Rossion, B., Han, J., Chung, C. S. and Caldara, R. 2006. Holistic processing is finely tuned for faces of one's own race. Psychological Science, 17(7): 608-615.
22. Navon, D. 1977. Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9(3): 353-383.
23. Perfect, T. J. 2003. Local processing bias impairs lineup performance. Psychological Reports, 93(2): 393-394.
24. Phelps, E. A., Ling, S. and Carrasco, M. 2006. Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefits of attention. Psychological Science, 17(4): 292-299.
25. Richler, J. J., Gauthier, I., Wenger, M. J. and Palmeri, T. J. 2008. Holistic processing of faces: Perceptual and decisional components. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(2): 328-342.
26. Richler, J. J., Mack, M. L., Gauthier, I. and Palmeri, T. J. 2009. Holistic processing of faces happens at a glance. Vision Research, 49(23): 2856-2861.
27. Rowe, G., Hirsh, J. B. and Anderson, A. K. 2007. Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 104(1): 383-388.
28. Russell, J. A., Weiss, A. and Mendelsohn, G. A. 1989. The Affect Grid: A single-item scale of pleasure and arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57: 493-502.
29. Sweeney, J. A., Wetzler, S., Stokes, P. and Kocsis, J. 1989. Cognitive functioning in depression. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45(6): 836-842.
30. Tanaka, J. W. and Farah, M. J. 1993. Parts and wholes in face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 46(2): 225-245.
31. Tanaka, J. W., Kiefer, M. and Bukach, C. M. 2004. A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: Evidence from a cross-cultural study. Cognition, 93(1): B1-9.
32. Tyler, S. K. and Tucker, D. M. 1982. Anxiety and perceptual structure: Individual differences in neuropsychological function. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 91(3): 210-220.
33. Weston, N. J. and Perfect, T. J. 2005. Effects of processing bias on the recognition of composite face halves. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(6): 1038-1042.
34. U.S. Census Bureau 2000. American Fact Finder fact sheet: Zip code tabulation area 19122.
35. Young, A. W., Hellawell, D. and Hay, D. 1987. Configural information in face perception. Perception, 10: 747-759.