Spatially Filtered Emotional Faces Dominate during Binocular Rivalry

• Published in: Brain sciences Vol. 10; no. 12; p. 998
• Main Authors: Turano, Maria, Giganti, Fiorenza, Gavazzi, Gioele, Lamberto, Simone, Gronchi, Giorgio, Giovannelli, Fabio, Peru, Andrea, Viggiano, Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 17.12.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Binocular vision; Computer applications; Emotions; Experiments; Males; Pattern recognition; Visual perception; happy bias affect; binocular rivalry; emotions; spatial frequencies; facial expressions

The present investigation explores the role of bottom-up and top-down factors in the recognition of emotional facial expressions during binocular rivalry. We manipulated spatial frequencies (SF) and emotive features and asked subjects to indicate whether the emotional or the neutral expression was d...