The perception of visual emotion: Comparing different measures of awareness
Authors:
- Remigiusz Szczepanowski,
- Jakub Traczyk,
- Michał Wierzchoń,
- Axel Cleeremans
Abstract
Here, we explore the sensitivity of different awareness scales in revealing conscious reports on visual emotion perception. Participants were exposed to a backward masking task involving fearful faces and asked to rate their conscious awareness in perceiving emotion in facial expression using three different subjective measures: confidence ratings (CRs), with the conventional taxonomy of certainty, the perceptual awareness scale (PAS), through which participants categorize ‘‘raw’’ visual experience, and post-decision wager- ing (PDW), which involves economic categorization. Our results show that the CR measure was the most exhaustive and the most graded. In contrast, the PAS and PDW measures sug- gested instead that consciousness of emotional stimuli is dichotomous. Possible explana- tions of the inconsistency were discussed. Finally, our results also indicate that PDW biases awareness ratings by enhancing first-order accuracy of emotion perception. This effect was possibly a result of higher motivation induced by monetary incentives.
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- Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, ISSN 1053-8100
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- 2013
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- 22(1)
- Pages
- 212-220
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- 0.00
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- DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2012.12.003 opening in a new tab
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- (en) English
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