Garner interference reveals dependencies between emotional expression and gaze in face perception.
Journal Article
The relationship between facial expression and gaze processing was investigated with the Garner selective attention paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants performed expression judgments without interference from gaze, but expression interfered with gaze judgments. Experiment 2 replicated these results across different emotions. In both experiments, expression judgments occurred faster than gaze judgments, suggesting that expression was processed before gaze could interfere. In Experiments 3 and 4, the difficulty of the emotion discrimination was increased in two different ways. In both cases, gaze interfered with emotion judgments and vice versa. Furthermore, increasing the difficulty of the emotion discrimination resulted in gaze and expression interactions. Results indicate that expression and gaze interactions are modulated by discriminability. Whereas expression generally interferes with gaze judgments, gaze direction modulates expression processing only when facial emotion is difficult to discriminate.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Graham, R; LaBar, KS
Published Date
- May 2007
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 7 / 2
Start / End Page
- 296 - 313
PubMed ID
- 17516809
Pubmed Central ID
- 17516809
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1931-1516
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1528-3542
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.296
Language
- eng