ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2022
Are covered faces eye-catching for us? The impact of masks on attentional processing of self and other faces during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The effect of mask use on cross-race face perception: a simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking study.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Do You Fail to Recognize Me with a Mask on? The Impact of Voice on Mask-Occluded Facial Identity Recognition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Visual exposure to masked faces benefits personally familiar but not famous face recognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Partial face visibility and facial cognition: event-related potential and eye tracking investigation.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2025Article
- Subjectively salient faces differ from emotional faces: ERP evidence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Face masks and fake masks: the effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Posterior theta activity reveals an early signal of self-face recognition.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- How far can the self be extended? Automatic attention capture is triggered not only by the self-face.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Face processing and early event-related potentials: replications and novel findings.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- A neural signature of exposure to masked faces after 18 months of COVID-19.Neuropsychologia · 2022Article
- Dimensional emotions are represented by distinct topographical brain networks.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been confronted with faces covered by surgical-like masks. This raises a question about how our brains process this kind of visual information. Thus, the aims of the current study were twofold: (1) to investigate the role of attention in the processing of different types of faces with masks, and (2) to test whether such partial information about faces is treated similarly to fully visible faces. Participants were tasked with the simple detection of self-, close-other's, and unknown faces with and without a mask; this task relies on attentional processes. Event-related potential (ERP) findings revealed a similar impact of surgical-like masks for all faces: the amplitudes of early (P100) and late (P300, LPP) attention-related components were higher for faces with masks than for fully visible faces. Amplitudes of N170 were similar for covered and fully visible faces, and sources of brain activity were located in the fusiform gyri in both cases. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) revealed that irrespective of whether the algorithm was trained to discriminate three types of faces either with or without masks, it was able to effectively discriminate faces that were not presented in the training phase.
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