Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder
Earlier electroencephalographic studies have compared attractive and unattractive faces and between faces with other objects, such as flowers, without revealing if a recognition memory bias toward faces and flowers exists or whether humans exhibit enhanced specific components toward all attractive o...
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| author | Yan Zhang Na Luo Fei-Fei Hong Cai-Hong Yang Yu-Fei Xie Jin-Yang Wu Gui-Xiang Wang Pei-Qiong Zhao Jian-Wen Chen Khan Aashiq |
| author_facet | Yan Zhang Na Luo Fei-Fei Hong Cai-Hong Yang Yu-Fei Xie Jin-Yang Wu Gui-Xiang Wang Pei-Qiong Zhao Jian-Wen Chen Khan Aashiq |
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| description | Earlier electroencephalographic studies have compared attractive and unattractive faces and between faces with other objects, such as flowers, without revealing if a recognition memory bias toward faces and flowers exists or whether humans exhibit enhanced specific components toward all attractive objects or only toward attractive faces. For objects with similar degrees of attractiveness, we sought to determine if the N170, P1, and N250 reflect upon the attractiveness of faces and flowers and demonstrated by comparing event-related potentials of humans' different perceptual mechanisms recognizing high attractive faces and high attractive flowers. The repeated high attractive faces tended to elicit a larger N170. Simultaneously, the P1 was preferentially associated with the repeated high attractive flowers, but both indicated that the repetitive enhancement effect only occurred on repeated attractive faces. Thus, differences existed in the perceptual mechanisms for processing repeated high attractive faces and repeated high attractive flowers. However, there was no significant difference in N250 between repeated faces and repeated flowers or between high attractive faces and high attractive flowers. Consequently, high attractive faces and high attractive flowers capture the beholder's memory bias in different processing stages. The N170 and P1 components are affected by attractiveness, thereby demonstrating the differences between human perceptual mechanisms in recognizing high attractive faces and objects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2012e92282e84a1aa4c4db8f339a44122022-12-22T01:49:11ZengIMR PressJournal of Integrative Neuroscience0219-63522020-12-0119462963910.31083/j.jin.2020.04.1661609231249637-469611637Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholderYan Zhang0Na Luo1Fei-Fei Hong2Cai-Hong Yang3Yu-Fei Xie4Jin-Yang Wu5Gui-Xiang Wang6Pei-Qiong Zhao7Jian-Wen Chen8Khan Aashiq9School of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaDepartment of Orthodontics, Shanghai Xuhui District Dental Disease Prevention and Control Institute, 200032, Shanghai, P. R. ChinaDepartment of Oral and Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center of Stomatology, 200011, Shanghai, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaCenter for Brain, Mind and Education, Shaoxing University, 312099, Shaoxing, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. ChinaEarlier electroencephalographic studies have compared attractive and unattractive faces and between faces with other objects, such as flowers, without revealing if a recognition memory bias toward faces and flowers exists or whether humans exhibit enhanced specific components toward all attractive objects or only toward attractive faces. For objects with similar degrees of attractiveness, we sought to determine if the N170, P1, and N250 reflect upon the attractiveness of faces and flowers and demonstrated by comparing event-related potentials of humans' different perceptual mechanisms recognizing high attractive faces and high attractive flowers. The repeated high attractive faces tended to elicit a larger N170. Simultaneously, the P1 was preferentially associated with the repeated high attractive flowers, but both indicated that the repetitive enhancement effect only occurred on repeated attractive faces. Thus, differences existed in the perceptual mechanisms for processing repeated high attractive faces and repeated high attractive flowers. However, there was no significant difference in N250 between repeated faces and repeated flowers or between high attractive faces and high attractive flowers. Consequently, high attractive faces and high attractive flowers capture the beholder's memory bias in different processing stages. The N170 and P1 components are affected by attractiveness, thereby demonstrating the differences between human perceptual mechanisms in recognizing high attractive faces and objects.https://jin.imrpress.com/fileup/1757-448X/PDF/1609231249637-469611637.pdfevent-related potentialsattractive facesattractive flowersrepetitive enhancement effectrecognitionperceptual mechanisms |
| spellingShingle | Yan Zhang Na Luo Fei-Fei Hong Cai-Hong Yang Yu-Fei Xie Jin-Yang Wu Gui-Xiang Wang Pei-Qiong Zhao Jian-Wen Chen Khan Aashiq Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder Journal of Integrative Neuroscience event-related potentials attractive faces attractive flowers repetitive enhancement effect recognition perceptual mechanisms |
| title | Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| title_full | Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| title_fullStr | Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| title_short | Attractiveness-related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| title_sort | attractiveness related recognition bias captures the memory of the beholder |
| topic | event-related potentials attractive faces attractive flowers repetitive enhancement effect recognition perceptual mechanisms |
| url | https://jin.imrpress.com/fileup/1757-448X/PDF/1609231249637-469611637.pdf |
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