Browsing Theses by Subject "face perception"
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An eye (region) sensitivity during early face perception: The N170 is modulated by facial context and featural fixation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-20)The N170 is a face-sensitive ERP component that also demonstrates a particular sensitivity to the eyes. Specifically, the N170 responds maximally to isolated eye regions (i.e., two eyes), as well as to eye fixations within ... -
Perceiving direct and averted gaze during emotion discrimination, affective empathy and affective theory of mind judgements: electrophysiological and behavioural effects
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-05)Our observations about the eye-gaze of others inform how we interact with them. Perception of direct gaze has been shown to impact emotional and self-referential processing differently than perception of averted gaze, which ... -
The time-course of contextual valence and self-relevance effects on the perception of faces with direct versus averted gaze
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)We see faces every day within a rich situational context. Previous ERP research has demonstrated that priming faces with contextual sentences varying in self-relevance and valence alters electrocortical and emotional ...