Visible information is controlled by emotion

Erica Zegel et al., Who are majoring in health psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, showed how the experience of themselves and changes in feeling of people who feel unconscious brought about changes in visual information It was. For this reason, if you are in a good mood for yourself and the surrounding people, even people who do not understand what you are thinking with an expressionless person seems to feel it to people who can be likable.

Seeing What You Feel: Affect Drives Visual Perception of Structurally Neutral Faces - Erika H. Siegel, Jolie B. Wormwood, Karen S. Quigley, Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2018
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741718

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Is Mona Lisa smiling? Depends on your mood: Study reveals emotions influence how you see it | Daily Mail Online
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Erika Zegel, who conducted the research, said, "We are not passively detecting and reacting to information, but rather to create an experience like an architect, that is, how to recognize the world Emotions are an important factor that determines the experience we create "" When we feel joy and discomfort, we recognize the world differently. "

In the past research, the research team in Zigel et al. Reported that "influencing a human's unconscious feeling changes the first impression of a neutral expression into" preferable "," unfavorable "," reliable " It showed that. In this research, I am investigating further whether stepping and changing the unconscious emotion of a person actually changes "neutral face recognition" itself.


The research team,Binocular rivalryI thought about experimenting using phenomenon. Binocular vision struggle means that when you see different figures with two eyes, usually the figure shown in one eye is recognized and the figure that is reflected in the other eye is perceived as time passes Thing. In other words, if both eyes show different images, the information perceived by the brain is only information on one eye.

And although the timing that the brain perceives the information seen by the other eye is random, there is a method of delaying the switching timing. As a method for suppressing perceptual change,Continuous flash suppressionThe phenomenon of adoption is adopted.

The research team gathered 43 subjects and conducted experiments using continuous flash suppression. Subjects were asked toMondrian figureAnd the face of an expressionless person are flashed alternately, and at the same time, the other's eyescontrast"Smile", "Screaming Face", or "Expressionless" images are displayed. Because people perceive dominant information on dominant eyes, the information seen by the eyes who are not dominant is usually drowned out with no consciousness of "looking".

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After the experiment, the monitor displayed 5 levels of expression of "smiling face" to "expressionless face" and "screaming face", and the subjects were exposed to the eyes during the experiments? I chose to say that. Then, despite consciously recognizing subjects from the dominant eye, all the same "expressionless", people who had "smiling face" projected on those who are not dominant, select smiling facial expressions I found that there is a tendency to answer according to the facial expression that existed outside the consciousness.

In addition, the research team is also investigating whether the eye which is not the dominant eye of the examinee was in a condition which can not really be perceived. According to the experiment, it is said that the data of the subject who asked the subject the question "Which direction was not the dominant eye" was "Direction in which direction" and who answered the direction of the face extremely accurately It seems that there was still no change in the trend though.

And this research has plagued art lovers for centuriesLeonardo da VinciWork's "Mona Lisa"Gives an answer to the problem that it seems to be a different expression depending on people and time. Mr. Zegel says, "If you look at Mona Lisa after you have quarreled with your husband, you should see a different look, not a smile, or if you are a person living life at the Louvre Museum , Mona Lisa will show a mysterious smile. "


According to Mr. Zegel et al., "This study shows that people have emotional control of visual information and that we see is not a real real world but a spiritual For this reason, we need to consider whether the judges and jurors evaluate the degree of reflection of defendants, such as scenes that are truly neutral in evaluation. " I will.