ArticleBrain and behavior2021
Gender differences in subliminal affective face priming: A high-density ERP study.
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- Affective priming from briefly presented facial expressions: a three-level and network meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Subliminal Priming Effects on Motor and Cognitive Performance: Pilot Evidence With Implications for Neurorehabilitation.Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2026Trial
- Sex dependency of subconscious visual perception.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- Gaze and Evaluative Behavior of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in an Affective Priming Task.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Early changes in corticospinal excitability for subliminally presented fearful body postures.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microstate Analyses to Study face Processing in Healthy Individuals and Psychiatric Disorders: A Review of ERP Findings.Brain topography · 2024Review
- EEG Microstates in Social and Affective Neuroscience.Brain topography · 2024Review
- Neural Mechanisms of Subliminal Mentor-Student Relationship Stimuli Processing: An ERP Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gender differences in subliminal affective face priming: A high-density ERP study.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionSubliminal affective priming effects (SAPEs) refer to the phenomenon by which the presentation of an affective prime stimulus influences the subsequent affective evaluation of a target stimulus. Previous studies have reported that unconsciously processed stimuli affect behavioral performance more than consciously processed stimuli. However, the impact of SAPEs on the face-specific N170 component is unclear. We studied how SAPEs for fearful faces affected the N170 for subsequent supraliminal target faces using event-related potentials (ERPs).
methodsJapanese adults (n = 44, 20 females) participated in this study. Subliminal prime faces (neutral or fearful) were presented for 17 ms, followed by a backward mask for 283 ms and 800 ms target faces (neutral, emotionally ambiguous, or fearful). 128-channel ERPs were recorded while participants judged the expression of target faces as neutral or fearful. Response rates and response times were also measured for assessing behavioral alterations.
resultsAlthough the behavioral results revealed no evidence of SAPEs, we found gender-related SAPEs in right N170 amplitude. Specifically, female participants exhibited enhanced right N170 amplitude for emotionally neutral faces primed by fearful faces, while male participants exhibited decreased N170 amplitude in fearful prime trials with fearful target faces. Male participants exhibited significant correlations between N170 amplitude and behavioral response time in the fearful prime-neutral target condition.
conclusionsOur ERP results suggest the existence of a gender difference in target-face processing preceded by subliminally presented face stimuli in the right occipito-temporal region.
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