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Red lips are perceived as more attractive, leading to faster initial attention and slower, more careful later processing. This suggests event-related potentials can track facial attractiveness perception.

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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Facial attractiveness significantly influences social interactions and perceptions.
  • The role of specific facial features, like lip color, in modulating early visual processing remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how different lipstick colors (red, yellow, blue, none) affect event-related potential (ERP) components related to face perception.
  • To determine if lip color influences the latency and amplitude of P1, N170, and early posterior negativity (EPN).
  • To explore the relationship between perceived attractiveness and neural processing speed and depth.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record ERPs in 19 participants.
  • Participants viewed visual stimuli of faces with four lip conditions: red, yellow, blue lipstick, and no makeup.
  • Key ERP components (P1, N170, EPN) were analyzed for latency and amplitude differences.

Main Results:

  • Red lips received significantly higher attractiveness ratings than other conditions.
  • Red lips showed shorter P1 peak latency compared to blue lips or no makeup, suggesting faster initial attention.
  • Red lips exhibited longer EPN peak latency and larger amplitudes compared to blue lips or no makeup, indicating slower, more detailed later processing.

Conclusions:

  • Lip color, particularly red, significantly modulates early and later stages of face perception.
  • ERP components like P1 and EPN may serve as biomarkers for the temporal processing of facial attractiveness.
  • Attractive facial features (red lips) engage more sustained and careful neural processing compared to less attractive ones (blue lips).