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Emotional faces influence numerosity estimation without awareness.

Hirokazu Doi¹, Kazuyuki Shinohara²

¹Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto-cho, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.

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Unconscious emotional faces, particularly fearful ones, alter numerical quantity perception. This suggests emotion automatically influences our judgment of numbers without conscious awareness.

Keywords:

Emotion Facial expression Number Unconscious

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Perception Science

Background:

Emotional information is known to affect time perception.
A common magnitude estimation system may link different sensory and cognitive domains.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if emotional faces modulate numerical quantity estimation.
To examine the effect of unconsciously presented emotional faces on numerosity perception.

Main Methods:

Utilized a number bisection task to assess numerosity estimation.
Employed continuous flash suppression to render facial stimuli invisible, ensuring unconscious presentation.
Tested the influence of fearful, happy, and neutral facial expressions.

Main Results:

Unconscious presentation of fearful faces led to an underestimation of numerosity compared to happy and neutral faces.
Participants could not consciously detect the presence of facial expressions.
Emotional perception impacts numerosity judgments automatically and without conscious awareness.

Conclusions:

Perceived emotion automatically influences numerosity judgments, even without conscious awareness.
Provides novel evidence for a link between emotion perception and quantity perception.
Highlights the pervasive influence of emotional processing on cognitive tasks.