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Configural Information Processing of Face Emoticon: Category-Level Repetition Suppression Effects

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2020, v.32 no.1, pp.111-124
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.1.008



& (2020). Configural Information Processing of Face Emoticon: Category-Level Repetition Suppression Effects. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 32(1), 111-124, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.1.008

Abstract

Although the use of face emoticons has become a common daily life, studies on the perception of facial emoticons are still rare. This study investigated the configural information processing of face emoticons and real faces (face photos) using ERP research methods. The successive presentation of different facial stimuli reduced N170 amplitude to facial stimuli compared to the mixed presentation of facial stimuli with other non-facial stimuli. This category-level repetition suppression effect for faces would occur when the same configural information processing underlying the N170 were repeated for each subsequent face (Maurer et al., 2008; Mercure, 2011). To examine the configural processing of face emoticon, we investigated category-level repetition suppression effect by manipulating the stimulus context. Face emoticons, face photos, and house icons were presented separately in separate blocks (homogeneous context) or were presented together in the same block (mixed context), and the effects of stimulus contexts on N170 and P1 were analyzed. The results showed that no context effect on P1 amplitude was found, and the magnitudes of P1 amplitude were in the order of face photo > face emoticon = house icon, which supports that P1 is sensitive to low-level perceptual properties and is not face-sensitive. The N170 amplitudes of face emoticons and face pictures except house icons were larger in the mixed context compared to the homogeneous context (category-level repetition suppression effect) which suggest that the processing of face emoticon rely on configural information processing similar to real face. N170 amplitudes of face emoticons and face photos were larger than those of house icons (face-sensitive N170 effect) in the mixed context, but only face photos except face emoticons showed face-sensitive N170 effect in the homogeneous context. Our findings suggest that the processing of real face rely on both configural information and face components information, but the processing of face emoticon rely on only configural information. Taken together, configural information plays a big role for the perception of even very simple emoticon faces, similar to real faces.

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얼굴이모티콘, 구성적 처리, 범주수준 반복억압효과, N170, P1, face emoticon, configural processing, category-level repetition suppression effect, N170, P1

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