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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Human face perception is crucial for social and emotional information processing.
  • Understanding how emotional and social cues interact in face perception remains a challenge.
  • Group dynamics and face orientation influence individual perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the combined influence of facial expression and orientation on face perception.
  • To model group situations and analyze perceived relevance, interaction, and emotional responses.
  • To examine the temporal dynamics of perceptual-attentional processing of face constellations.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Behavioral ratings of face pairs (happy, neutral, angry) in different orientations (observer-facing, profile towards, profile away).
  • Experiment 2: Event-related potentials (ERPs) to analyze neural processing of face constellations.
  • Utilized N170, early posterior negativity (EPN), and late positive potentials (LPP) to assess temporal dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Facial expression (emotional > neutral) and orientation (observer-facing > profile towards > profile away) significantly affected ratings.
  • Emotional face evaluation varied strongly with orientation, indicating interaction effects.
  • Neural processing (N170, EPN, LPP) differed for emotional vs. neutral faces and varied with orientation.

Conclusions:

  • Perceived personal relevance, conveyed by expression and direction, amplifies emotional face processing in group contexts.
  • Both early (N170, EPN) and late (LPP) neural responses are modulated by facial expression and orientation.
  • Findings enhance understanding of social perception within complex group dynamics.