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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Emotion Research

Background:

  • The debate on affective versus cognitive primacy in processing emotional stimuli remains unresolved.
  • Understanding the factors influencing these processing pathways is crucial for emotion research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temporal dynamics of affective and cognitive primacy in response to emotional facial stimuli.
  • To determine how stimulus properties (affective expression and structural features) influence early and late electrophysiological responses.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an adapted visual oddball paradigm with electroencephalography (EEG) recordings.
  • Presented face stimuli with variations in affective expression and/or structural orientation (frontal vs. sideways).
  • Analyzed event-related potential (ERP) components, including P1, N170, and P300 amplitudes.

Main Results:

  • Affective expression deviants elicited early P1 modulations (~100ms).
  • Structural deviants showed affective differences primarily in the N170 time window.
  • All deviant types modulated P300 amplitudes, indicating integrated affective and structural information processing.
  • Affective primacy was evident when facial features were easily extracted; cognitive primacy emerged with increased structural processing demands.

Conclusions:

  • Evidence supports both cognitive and affective primacy, contingent on stimulus characteristics.
  • Affective primacy is facilitated by effortless extraction of facial features.
  • Cognitive primacy is highlighted when structural face processing becomes more demanding.