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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Social Cognition

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  • Facial expressions serve as crucial social cues in daily interactions.
  • Expression aftereffects, perceptual phenomena following adaptation to facial expressions, are traditionally linked to face-selective neural mechanisms.
  • Recent research suggests that lower-level visual adaptation, specifically tilt adaptation, might contribute to expression aftereffects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether expression aftereffects can be entirely explained by tilt adaptation.
  • To determine the extent to which face-selective processing contributes to expression aftereffects.

Main Methods:

  • Participants underwent an expression adaptation task.
  • The influence of tilt adaptation was controlled by manipulating the orientation of adaptor stimuli relative to test stimuli.
  • The effect of inverting the adapting face on expression aftereffects was assessed.

Main Results:

  • Robust expression aftereffects persisted even after minimizing the inheritance of tilt adaptation.
  • Tilt adaptation accounted for only a partial contribution to the observed expression aftereffects.
  • Inverting the adapting face significantly reduced expression aftereffects.

Conclusions:

  • Expression aftereffects cannot be fully explained by lower-level tilt adaptation alone.
  • Face-selective neural processing plays a significant role in generating expression aftereffects.
  • These findings support the involvement of specialized face processing mechanisms in interpreting social cues.