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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Studies indicate emotion words impact perception of emotional stimuli.
  • The effect of emotion words on perceptual memory for emotional faces remains under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how emotion words affect perceptual memory for emotional faces.
  • To determine if congruent emotion words influence face recognition accuracy and bias.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed face recognition tasks after being primed with either emotion words or control words.
  • Sensitivity (d') and response bias (c) were measured to assess discrimination abilities and response tendencies.
  • Experiment 3 manipulated face structural information and word-face congruence.

Main Results:

  • Emotion word priming increased false alarms to congruent distractor faces.
  • Participants exhibited decreased sensitivity (d') and altered response biases (c) when primed with emotion words.
  • The impact of emotion words was more pronounced with limited facial information or partial word-face congruence.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion words significantly influence the encoding of emotional faces in perceptual memory.
  • This suggests a strong interaction between language and visual memory for emotional content.
  • Findings highlight the role of semantic context in shaping emotional face perception and memory.