Neural Mechanisms of the Conscious and Subliminal Processing of Facial Attractiveness

Author:

Hou Xuejiao1,Shang Junchen23ORCID,Tong Shuo4

Affiliation:

1. College of Education, Suihua University, Suihua 152061, China

2. Department of Medical Humanities, School of Humanities, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

3. College of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China

4. Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the neural activity evoked by facial attractiveness in conscious and subliminal conditions. The 41 participants judged facial attractiveness in a conscious condition and a subliminal condition (backward masking paradigm). The event-related potential (ERP) analysis indicated that in the conscious condition, more attractive faces elicited a longer N1 (80–120 ms) latency than less attractive faces. Moreover, more attractive female faces elicited a larger late positive component (LPC) (350–550 ms) amplitude than less attractive female faces. In the subliminal condition, more attractive faces elicited a longer P1 (140–180 ms) latency than less attractive faces. The present study demonstrated that more attractive faces evoked different early-stage ERPs from that evoked by less attractive faces in both conscious and subliminal conditions. However, the processing of facial attractiveness is obviously weakened in the subliminal condition.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Start-up Research Fund of Southeast University

Southeast University

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Neuroscience

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