ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2018
Unconscious processing of facial expression as revealed by affective priming under continuous flash suppression.
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- Diffusion model-based understanding of subliminal affective priming in continuous flash suppression.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- How do Faces Influence Behavior? A Proposal for Distinguishing between Mechanisms that Involve Cognitive inferences, Emotional Feelings, and Unconscious Affective Reactions.Affective science · 2026Review
- The impact of awareness on affective emoji priming in visual word recognition.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Early changes in corticospinal excitability for subliminally presented fearful body postures.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unconscious processing of facial race and emotional information.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Priority access to awareness? A new 'CFS tracking' paradigm reveals no priority for fearful faces or a face inversion effect.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Taking gambles at face value: Effects of emotional expressions on risky decisions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Whether emotional information from facial expressions can be processed unconsciously is still controversial; this debate is partially due to ambiguities in distinguishing the unconscious-conscious boundary and to possible contributions from low-level (rather than emotional) properties. To avoid these possible confounding factors, we adopted an affective-priming paradigm with the continuous flash suppression (CFS) method in order to render an emotional face invisible. After presenting an invisible face (prime) with either positive or negative valence under CFS, a visible word (target) with an emotionally congruent or incongruent valence was presented. The participants were required to judge the emotional valence (positive or negative) of the target. The face prime was presented for either a short (200 ms, Exp. 1) or a long (1,000 ms, Exp. 2) duration in order to test whether the priming effect would vary with the prime duration. The consistent priming effects across the two priming durations showed that, as compared to their incongruent counterparts, congruent facial expressions can facilitate emotional judgments of subsequent words. These results suggest that the emotional information from facial expressions can be processed unconsciously.
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