The Influences From Emotional Learning On The Processing Of Emotional Face

Emotional information has an obvious advantage in perceptual processingcomparing to other information. However, as kind of emotional information fearfulface will be faster perceived under conscious for a person. Studies had found thatauditory emotional learning enabled individual to obtain specific emotions to aspecific stimuli. However, there was no evidence about whether auditory emotionallearning influenced unconscious senior visual cortex processing. Hence our studyused auditory emotional learning to make negative sound with emotional facestogether which was to explore whether the auditory emotional learning couldinfluence the perception of emotional face.The first experiment which using auditory emotional learning (siren and fear facelearning) was to explore whether auditory emotional learning could promote theunconscious perception of fearful face. In Experiment1, we used single factor withindesign. The independent factor was learning conditions (siren CS+, sirens CS-), andthe dependent variable was suppressing time (ST).For creating unconscious condition,we used CFS binocular rivalry paradigm. The experimental results showed that afterauditory emotional learning the subject did not perceive the fearful face faster thancontrol condition.The second experiment also used auditory emotional learning (siren and fearfulface associative learning) which was to explore whether auditory emotional learningcould promote the conscious perception of fearful face, which using single factorwithin design. The independent factor was learning conditions (siren CS+, sirensCS-), and the dependent variable was reaction time (RT). The experiment resultsshowed that after auditory emotional learning the subject did not perceive the fearfulface faster than control condition.In third experiment, we still used CFS binocular rivalry paradigm to explorewhether auditory emotional learning can promote unconscious perception of fearfulface. We still used the same single factor within the design. The independent factorwas learning conditions (horror sound CS+, horror sound CS-). The dependentvariable was suppression time (ST). Results showed that after learning the subjectsperceived fearful faces faster than control condition, which indicating that auditoryemotional learning was effective to senior visual cortex processing on unconsciousperception.This study found that auditory emotional learning could give people help toprocessing emotional face, and learning experience could be migrated to theunconscious perception which was influenced by the senior visual cortex processing.