Incidental retrieval of prior emotion mimicry

Pawling, Ralph; Kirkham, Alexander James; Hayes, Amy E.; Tipper, Steven P.

doi:10.1007/s00221-017-4882-y

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“…However, this consistently appeared not to be the case in our experiments. It is important to note that we are not questioning such embodied/grounded accounts of cognition, and indeed we have previously provided evidence for such learning and retrieval processes (e.g., Pawling et al, 2017;Rogers et al, 2014). Rather, our current results, and those of Canits, Pecher, and Zeelenberg (2018) and Quak, Pecher, and Zeelenberg (2014), who also failed to show any effects of action fluency on later retrieval from memory, provide important boundary conditions where visuomotor fluency when processing objects may not always influence processing when later encountering an object in a different context.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Embodied accounts of emotional memory encoding propose that visuomotor states are encoded during initial exposure to a stimulus (e.g., Niedenthal, 2007; Pawling, Kirkham, Hayes, & Tipper, 2017). That is, during episodic memory retrieval, sensory and motor neural processing states that were active at encoding are reactivated when the stimulus is encountered at a later time (e.g., Barsalou, 1999; Glenberg, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The fragility of such a retrieval process has been observed in other research where effects are not always observed. For example, Pawling et al (2017) found that retrieval of prior emotional states following context change was possible whereas Kirkham, Hayes, Pawling, & Tipper, (2015) found that it was not. In Experiment 4, we continue to pursue the endurance of fluency effects following context change by reducing the number of objects to lessen memory load.…”

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Motion fluency and object preference: Robust perceptual but fragile memory effects.

Flavell¹,

McKean²,

Tipper³

et al. 2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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In 8 experiments, we investigated motion fluency effects on object preference. In each experiment, distinct objects were repeatedly seen moving either fluently (with a smooth and predictable motion) or disfluently (with sudden and unpredictable direction changes) in a task where participants were required to respond to occasional brief changes in object appearance. Results show that 1) fluent objects are preferred over disfluent objects when ratings follow a moving presentation, 2) there is some evidence that object-motion associations can be learnt with repeated exposures, 3) sufficiently potent motions can yield preference for fluent objects after a single viewing, and 4) learnt associations do not transfer to situations where ratings follow a stationary presentation, even after deep levels of encoding. Episodic accounts of memory retrieval predict that emotional states experienced at encoding might be retrieved along with the stimulus properties. Though object-motion associations were repeatedly paired, there was no evidence for emotional reinstatement when objects were seen stationary. This indicates that the retrieval process is a critical limiting factor when considering visuomotor fluency effects on behaviour. Such findings have real-world consequences. For example, a product advertised with high perceptual fluency might be preferred at the time, but this preference might not transfer to seeing the object on a shelf.

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Motion fluency and object preference: Robust perceptual but fragile memory effects.

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Tipper³

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“…It is therefore possible that faster and more efficient imitation of emotional facial expressions presented in proximity (vs. at distance) may facilitate social interactions. We found that EMG response lasted much longer than the stimulus presentation, thus it might also be related to the maintaining of the emotional impression in memory 48 . We also found that a greater engagement of the corrugator supercilii in the imitation of angry expression predicted greater changes in emotional intensity ratings.…”

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Simulated proximity enhances perceptual and physiological responses to emotional facial expressions

Bogdanova

Bogdanov

Miller

et al. 2022

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Physical proximity is important in social interactions. Here, we assessed whether simulated physical proximity modulates the perceived intensity of facial emotional expressions and their associated physiological signatures during observation or imitation of these expressions. Forty-four healthy volunteers rated intensities of dynamic angry or happy facial expressions, presented at two simulated locations, proximal (0.5 m) and distant (3 m) from the participants. We tested whether simulated physical proximity affected the spontaneous (in the observation task) and voluntary (in the imitation task) physiological responses (activity of the corrugator supercilii face muscle and pupil diameter) as well as subsequent ratings of emotional intensity. Angry expressions provoked relative activation of the corrugator supercilii muscle and pupil dilation, whereas happy expressions induced a decrease in corrugator supercilii muscle activity. In proximal condition, these responses were enhanced during both observation and imitation of the facial expressions, and were accompanied by an increase in subsequent affective ratings. In addition, individual variations in condition related EMG activation during imitation of angry expressions predicted increase in subsequent emotional ratings. In sum, our results reveal novel insights about the impact of physical proximity in the perception of emotional expressions, with early proximity-induced enhancements of physiological responses followed by an increased intensity rating of facial emotional expressions.

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“…To date, only very few studies have looked at the influence of facial mimicry and the resulting facial feedback on the storage and retrieval of facial emotional expressions. One recent study by Pawling et al 25 demonstrated that the visual re-exposure to a facial expression reactivated the corresponding mimicry in a similar way as did the initial exposure. Interestingly, this emotional mimicry re-activation also occurred when the same face identity was displayed with a neutral expression during the re-exposure.…”

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Effects of posed smiling on memory for happy and sad facial expressions

Kuehne

Zaehle

Lobmaier

2021

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The perception and storage of facial emotional expressions constitutes an important human skill that is essential for our daily social interactions. While previous research revealed that facial feedback can influence the perception of facial emotional expressions, it is unclear whether facial feedback also plays a role in memory processes of facial emotional expressions. In the present study we investigated the impact of facial feedback on the performance in emotional visual working memory (WM). For this purpose, 37 participants underwent a classical facial feedback manipulation (FFM) (holding a pen with the teeth—inducing a smiling expression vs. holding a pen with the non-dominant hand—as a control condition) while they performed a WM task on varying intensities of happy or sad facial expressions. Results show that the smiling manipulation improved memory performance selectively for happy faces, especially for highly ambiguous facial expressions. Furthermore, we found that in addition to an overall negative bias specifically for happy faces (i.e. happy faces are remembered as more negative than they initially were), FFM induced a positivity bias when memorizing emotional facial information (i.e. faces were remembered as being more positive than they actually were). Finally, our data demonstrate that men were affected more by FFM: during induced smiling men showed a larger positive bias than women did. These data demonstrate that facial feedback not only influences our perception but also systematically alters our memory of facial emotional expressions.

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Incidental retrieval of prior emotion mimicry

Cited by 7 publications

References 64 publications

Motion fluency and object preference: Robust perceptual but fragile memory effects.

Motion fluency and object preference: Robust perceptual but fragile memory effects.

Simulated proximity enhances perceptual and physiological responses to emotional facial expressions

Effects of posed smiling on memory for happy and sad facial expressions

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