An important question in neuroscience is which multisensory information, presented outside of awareness, can influence the nature and speed of conscious access to our percepts. Recently, proprioceptive feedback of the hand was reported to lead to faster awareness of congruent hand images in a breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS) paradigm. Moreover, a vast literature suggests that spontaneous facial mimicry can improve emotion recognition, even without awareness of the stimulus face. However, integration of visual and proprioceptive information about the face to date has not been tested with CFS. The modulation of visual awareness of emotional faces by facial proprioception was investigated across three separate experiments. Face proprioception was induced with voluntary facial expressions or with spontaneous facial mimicry. Frequentist statistical analyses were complemented with Bayesian statistics. No evidence of multisensory integration was found, suggesting that proprioception does not modulate access to visual awareness of emotional faces in a CFS paradigm.

Face proprioception does not modulate access to visual awareness of emotional faces in a continuous flash suppression paradigm / Korb, Sebastian; Osimo, Sofia A.; Suran, Tiziano; Goldstein, Ariel; Rumiati, Raffaella. - In: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. - ISSN 1053-8100. - 51:(2017), pp. 166-180. [10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.008]

Face proprioception does not modulate access to visual awareness of emotional faces in a continuous flash suppression paradigm

Korb, Sebastian;Osimo, Sofia A.;Suran, Tiziano;Rumiati, Raffaella
2017-01-01

Abstract

An important question in neuroscience is which multisensory information, presented outside of awareness, can influence the nature and speed of conscious access to our percepts. Recently, proprioceptive feedback of the hand was reported to lead to faster awareness of congruent hand images in a breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS) paradigm. Moreover, a vast literature suggests that spontaneous facial mimicry can improve emotion recognition, even without awareness of the stimulus face. However, integration of visual and proprioceptive information about the face to date has not been tested with CFS. The modulation of visual awareness of emotional faces by facial proprioception was investigated across three separate experiments. Face proprioception was induced with voluntary facial expressions or with spontaneous facial mimicry. Frequentist statistical analyses were complemented with Bayesian statistics. No evidence of multisensory integration was found, suggesting that proprioception does not modulate access to visual awareness of emotional faces in a CFS paradigm.
2017
51
166
180
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.03.008
Korb, Sebastian; Osimo, Sofia A.; Suran, Tiziano; Goldstein, Ariel; Rumiati, Raffaella
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