ArticleNeuropsychologia2022
A neural signature of exposure to masked faces after 18 months of COVID-19.
Article in Neuropsychologia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Visual exposure to masked faces benefits personally familiar but not famous face recognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Seeing emotions: an eye-tracking study of emotion recognition in deaf individuals amid facial occlusions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- 'The mirror of the soul?' Inferring sadness in the eyes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Predictive Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in the Processing of Dynamic Emotions.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Face processing and early event-related potentials: replications and novel findings.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Temporal attention affects contrast response function by response gain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the last two years, face-to-face interactions have drastically changed worldwide, because of the COVID-19 pandemic: the persistent use of masks has had the advantage of reducing viral transmission, but it has also had the cost of impacting on the perception and recognition of social information from faces, especially emotions. To assess the cerebral counterpart to this condition, we carried out an EEG experiment, extracting Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) evoked by emotional faces with and without surgical masks. Besides the expected impairment in emotion recognition in both accuracy and response times, also the classical face-related ERPs (N170 and P2) are altered by the presence of surgical masks. Importantly, the effect is stronger in individuals with a lower daily exposure to masks, suggesting that the brain must adapt to an extra constraint in decoding social input, due to masks hiding crucial facial information.
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