Do You Fail to Recognize Me with a Mask on? The Impact of Voice on Mask-Occluded Facial Identity Recognition.

Min Gao, Wenyu Duan, Tianhang Liu, Yulin Gao, Xiaoyu Tang

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Min GaoSchool of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China.

Wenyu DuanSchool of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China.

Tianhang LiuHuludao First Senior High School, Huludao 125000, China.ORCID 0009-0002-1007-4655

Yulin GaoDepartment of Philosophy, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.

Xiaoyu TangSchool of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China.

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Dalian Federation of Social Sciences Project 2025dlskyb394, M.G.Natural Science Basic Scientific Research Project of the Educational Department of Liaoning Province LJKZ0987, X.T.Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province 2022-MS-312, X.T.Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province 20250205061GH, Y.G.Social Science Foundation of Liaoning Province 25CSH008, M.G.Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Financed by Ministry of Education of China 22YJC190005, Y.G.Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Financed by the Ministry of Education 22YJC190020, X.T.

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Abstract

This research sought to examine differences in the cross-modal facilitation effect of voice on facial identity recognition under mask occlusion for both oneself and others. Employing a facial recognition paradigm, we examined the influence of voice on facial identity recognition under static and dynamic mask occlusion through two eye-tracking experiments. The behavioral results from Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that mask occlusion interfered with recognition for both static and dynamic faces, with greater interference observed for others' faces than for self-faces. In addition, voice exerts cross-modal enhancement effects on faces, with greater enhancement observed for masked faces than for no mask. Furthermore, voice provides stronger enhancement for others' dynamic faces than for their self-dynamic faces. Eye-tracking data from both experiments revealed that the difference in dynamic facial recognition between self-faces and others' faces due to voice emerged in the early stages of dynamic facial recognition and persisted into later stages. However, regardless of whether they were in the early or late stages of static facial recognition, the facilitation effect of voice did not differ between themselves and others. This study revealed that the cross-modal facilitation of visual stimuli by voice is influenced by the self-advantage effect.

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cross-modal facilitationeye-trackingfacial identificationmask occlusionself-advantage effect

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PMID41595070

DOI10.3390/bs16010128

PMCPMC12837565

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