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Remembering who was where: a happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory
- Source :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association, 2018.
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Abstract
- It is well established that visual working memory (WM) for face identity is enhanced when faces display threatening versus nonthreatening expressions. During social interaction, it is also important to bind person identity with location information in WM to remember who was where, but we lack a clear understanding of how emotional expression influences this. Here, we conducted two touchscreen experiments to investigate how angry versus happy expressions displayed at encoding influenced the precision with which participants relocated a single neutral test face to its original position. Maintenance interval was manipulated (Experiment 2; 1 s, 3 s, 6 s) to assess durability of binding. In both experiments, relocation accuracy was enhanced when faces were happy versus angry, and this happy benefit endured from 1-s to 6-s maintenance interval. Eye movement measures during encoding showed no convincing effects of oculomotor behavior that could readily explain the happy benefit. However, accuracy in general was improved, and the happy benefit was strongest for the last, most recent face fixated at encoding. Improved, durable binding of who was where in the presence of a happy expression may reflect the importance of prosocial navigation. (PsycINFO Database Record
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Linguistics and Language
Visual perception
visuospatial working memory
Time Factors
Eye Movements
Spatial ability
Happiness
BF
Short-term memory
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Anger
Spatial memory
050105 experimental psychology
Language and Linguistics
maintenance
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Emotional expression
emotional expression
Research Articles
Spatial Memory
Facial expression
Working memory
05 social sciences
Cognition
Recognition, Psychology
Facial Expression
Memory, Short-Term
faces
Female
Psychology
Facial Recognition
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02787393 and 00221015
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7f6986cd61c1b87b338510ee61a8e937