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The Effect of Emotional Valence on Memory for Face Identity

Creator:

Herdener, Nathan

Abstract:

Previous studies using an incidental learning paradigm have found that facial emotion enhances subsequent face recognition. The present study examined whether emotion enhances only memory for the specific emotional features, or whether it also enhances general memory of that person's identity. Prior to the study, we had 20 participants validate...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
An electrophysiological study of emotional perception in a dual-task paradigm

Creator:

Shaw, Kathleen Elizabeth

Abstract:

The present study examined whether emotion perception requires central attentional resources. A dual-task paradigm was used to examine whether people can direct their attention to a face expressing a target emotion, even while they are still selecting a response to another task. Task-1 required an auditory discrimination while for Task-2,...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis