Electrophysiological evidence of facial inversion with rapid serial visual presentation

Configural and featural face processing are differently modulated by attentional resources at early stages: An event-related potential study with rapid serial visual presentation

“…N170 has been suggested to be an indicator of face perception in early stages, such as structural encoding (Bentin et al, 1996;Eimer, 2000). Thus, similar to the findings of ERP studies by Luo et al (2010Luo et al ( , 2012 using the RSVP paradigm, our results suggested that the AB to faces may be caused by the suppression of the perceptual processing. As the posterior P1 component was suppressed more during the inside (lag 2) relative to the outside (lag 6) AB period, the current evidence suggests that time-based attention may operate at early stages.…”

Visual MMN elicited by orientation changes of faces

“…In sum, the present study investigated the vMMN elicited by orientation changes of faces and found that, although the low-level refractory e®ect was eliminated using the equi-probable paradigm, face orientation changes elicited occipital-temporal distributed vMMN, supporting the idea that the disruption of facial con¯guration processing caused by inverted faces is relatively independent of attentional resources (Boutet et al, 2002;Luo et al, 2013). However, in order to explore its speci¯city for faces, it is necessary to compare the face-MMN with object-MMN in the future.…”

“…However, in those studies vMMN was elicited by the change of facial expression not by the change of facial con¯guration per se as the 492 W. WANG, D. MIAO & L. ZHAO present face MMN. To this end, the present¯ndings indicated that the con¯gural disruption processing re°ected by face inversion was automatically engaged under unattended condition (c.f., Luo et al, 2013).…”

“…In contrast, Boutet et al (2002) considered that the human visual system can automatically process con¯gural modulation of faces although distracting attention away from a face. Moreover, there was evidence found that, using a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm, the disruption of facial con¯guration processing was independent of attentional resources (Luo et al, 2013). In the present study, we will further investigate whether con¯gural computation of faces automatically occurs under non-attentional condition by recoding and analyzing the vMMN elicited by orientation changes of faces.…”

Emotional Noun Processing: An ERP Study with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation

“…As we known that the P1 typically occurred around 100ms, and N170 around 170ms, but in our results, we analyzed P1 during 166–196ms, and N170 between 264–304ms. It also could be possible and previous studies [ 20 , 21 , 25 , 31 , 32 ] also found the delayed latencies of P1, VPP, and N170 using RSVP paradigm. Some previous studies reported different latencies for P1, VPP, and N170 components.…”