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    • Cognitive Neuroscience
    • Social Psychology
    • Visual Perception

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    • Human faces and bodies are crucial for social interaction, with structural encoding relying on configural processing.
    • Stimulus inversion (face inversion effect - FIE, body inversion effect - BIE) impairs structural encoding.
    • Emotional expressions enhance structural encoding for faces, but their effect on body perception is less understood.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate how emotional expressions affect structural encoding of faces and bodies, considering inversion effects.
    • To examine the influence of different emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, neutral) on event-related potential (ERP) components.
    • To explore how task type (implicit vs. explicit processing) modulates responses to emotional social stimuli.

    Main Methods:

    • Recorded three ERP components (P1, N170, P2) using 128-channel EEG.
    • Presented participants with upright and inverted faces and bodies displaying various emotions.
    • Analyzed the impact of stimulus inversion and emotional expressions on ERP amplitudes and task accuracy.

    Main Results:

    • Both stimulus inversion and emotional expressions independently affected ERP components (P1, N170, P2) and accuracy.
    • Faces showed emotion-specific effects during structural encoding (N170), while body perception's conceptualization (P2) was modulated by emotion.
    • Task type (implicit vs. explicit) differentially influenced accuracy and ERP components.

    Conclusions:

    • Results support theories of independent neurocognitive pathways for structural encoding and emotional expression analysis of social stimuli.
    • Functional independence between these pathways offers neurocognitive and computational advantages.
    • Emotional processing of bodies engages different ERP components (P2) compared to faces (N170).