From Specificity to Sensitivity: Affective states modulate visual working memory for emotional expressive faces

From Specificity to Sensitivity: Affective states modulate visual working memory for emotional expressive faces

Previous findings suggest that visual working memory preferentially remembers angry looking faces. However, the meaning of facial actions is construed in relation to context. To date, there are no studies investigating the role of perceiver-based context when processing emotional cues in visual work...

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Main Authors: Thomas eMaran, Pierre eSachse, Marco eFurtner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
emotion
stress
context
face processing
mood
visual working memory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01297/full

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