The emotional valence and features of subliminal priming images impact conscious perception of face expressions

The emotional valence and features of subliminal priming images impact conscious perception of face expressions Huang Rana Vaina

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The emotional valence and features of subliminal priming images impact conscious perception of face expressions 2018 bioRxiv 10.1101/255489 Huang2018-the-emotional-valence-and-features-of-sublim Huang2018-the-emotional-valence-and-features-of-sublim.txt, the project's staged copy 363444f6833b237ff88c28cde2020afc1551855a not-redistributable cognitive-psychology

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0 spans located by searching the stored text for the quote's exact words, allowing any whitespace between them existence Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal affective priming of facial expression perception Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. behavioural-experiment behavioural-experiment Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms faces in the prime are processed preferentially, and the perceived prime face then competes with and interferes with perception of the target face Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms a face in the prime sets up an expectation of an emotionally charged target, which speeds and biases the response toward 'angry' Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms an egocentric vantage-point recruits action-preparation processes, which lower the priority given to affect processing and so degrade angry-face recognition status: the paper's own words: we suggest that Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The design cannot separate the emotion of the depicted scene from the emotion of the facial expression within the prime; the authors state they will add further prime dimensions to do so. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. prime and mask both subtending 12.5 by 12.5 degrees and presented at the same central location eliminates: a size or position difference between prime and mask, which would make the masking incomplete in a way that varies with the stimulus · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal priming subliminal priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. affective primacy affective primacy Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. centricity centricity Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. egocentric egocentric Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A NAMED HYPOTHESIS GIVEN A BOUNDARY CONDITION RATHER THAN A VERDICT: `the affective primacy hypothesis which predicts that affective information can be accessed automatically, preceding conscious cognition, holds true in subliminal priming only when the priming image contains a face.` Not confirmed, not refuted - restricted. And the condition is a property of the STIMULUS, where the ambiguity condition is a property of the outcome situation and Holcomb2005's is a property of the observer. Three different places a priming effect can be conditional, and a corpus that records only `X primes Y` loses all three Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. THE PRIME MAKES THE TASK HARDER, WHICH IS THE CASE THE STANDARD DEFINITION EXCLUDES. `subliminally priming with a face-containing image significantly impairs the subjects' ability to perceive the emotional expression of the target-face.` Minton2017 quotes McNamara defining priming as `an IMPROVEMENT in performance` and then strikes the word out, because `priming can also involve a change in performance that is neutral or results in POORER performance`. This record is the counterexample that correction needed - a real interference effect, in a different literature, from a paper that never mentions the definitional dispute Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. IT CONTRADICTS A NAMED STUDY AND SAYS SO PLAINLY: `Quotation withheld.` And it offers the reconciling detail rather than leaving the disagreement bare - `the emotional expression of a face in a prime can be processed, at least partially, during a 16 ms exposure`. A null and a positive on the same manipulation, with an exposure duration between them Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. AND THE CONGRUENCY EFFECT IS ITSELF CONDITIONAL, WHICH IS THE SECOND `only when` IN ONE PAPER: `we found that specifically the incongruency of the pleasant prime and the angry expression of the target-face lead to worse performance ... Quotation withheld.` So the paper reports an affective congruency effect, agrees it is the known one, and then restricts it - twice qualifying a borrowed finding rather than claiming a new one Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. extends → Vaina, Rana, Cotos Cheng, Huang, & Podea (2014) preliminary study of affective subliminal priming in schizophrenic subjects Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contradicts → Andrews, Lipp, Malan, & Könjg (2011) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. builds-on → Kemps, Erauw, and Vandierendock (1996) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. egocentric —causes→ subliminal priming egocentric subliminal priming strength of the relation: 0.85 · note: NO effect direction. Vantage-point is a two-level CATEGORY (egocentric or allocentric), not a quantity, so 'increases' and 'reduces' are both meaningless - what the paper reports is that the two levels DIFFER, and in which direction for which target. And what this edge cannot carry is the sharpest part: the centricity effect holds 'REGARDLESS of whether…', which makes it the one route here that does NOT need the affective content. That sentence never says 'subliminal priming', so it is on the 'centricity' concept row instead. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says vantage point impacts the priming effect; 'egocentric causes subliminal priming' drops the effect. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. generalized linear mixed model generalized linear mixed model Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Wilcoxon signed-rank test Wilcoxon signed-rank test Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. false discovery rate correction false discovery rate correction Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. power analysis power analysis Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. F-test F-test about this quote: QUOTE RECOVERED FROM THE PAPER'S OWN CHARACTERS. The recorded quote was LETTERS-ONLY IDENTICAL to this stretch of the staged text but not an exact substring of it - spaces, hyphens, ligature glyphs or mathematical operators differed, so it could never anchor. This is the file's own text between the same two letters: not produced by a rule about the damage, copied out of the file. Round-trip checked (the recovered span is letters-only equal to the original) and length-checked. The text as originally recorded is kept in evidence as extracted. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. standard error standard error Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Priming images that contained a face impaired subsequent identification of the target face's expression relative to primes without a face. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Pleasant primes containing a face selectively damaged recognition of angry target-face expressions. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. After an egocentric prime, neutral target expressions were recognised significantly better than angry ones. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Among face-containing primes, neutral ones produced better target-face performance than either aggressive or pleasant ones. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The authors conclude that the affective primacy hypothesis survives in subliminal priming only in the special case where the prime image contains a face. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The face-versus-non-face prime difference reached significance only for aggressive prime content. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. congruency effect congruency effect Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. affective primacy hypothesis affective primacy hypothesis Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. SAFFIMAP test SAFFIMAP test Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. centricity centricity Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. presence or absence of a face in the priming image presence or absence of a face in the priming image Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. centricity centricity Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. percent correct percent correct Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subject variability subject variability Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 16 ms — exposure duration of the subliminal prime image, followed by a 100 ms mask Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Thirty-three subjects — number of participants, with their sex split and mean age Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 120 trials — total number of trials in the SAFFIMAP test about this quote: QUOTE RECOVERED FROM THE PAPER'S OWN CHARACTERS. The recorded quote was LETTERS-ONLY IDENTICAL to this stretch of the staged text but not an exact substring of it - spaces, hyphens, ligature glyphs or mathematical operators differed, so it could never anchor. This is the file's own text between the same two letters: not produced by a rule about the damage, copied out of the file. Round-trip checked (the recovered span is letters-only equal to the original) and length-checked. The text as originally recorded is kept in evidence as extracted. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 74.20% vs 78.00% — mean accuracy on target-face evaluation after face primes versus non-face primes Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 73.4% vs 81.0% — mean accuracy after aggressive primes with a face versus aggressive primes without a face Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 81.64% vs 77.31% — mean accuracy on neutral target faces after egocentric versus allocentric primes Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution.

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