Presentation 2015-05-19
Unconscious processing of facial attractiveness under continuous flash suppression
Koyo Nakamura, Shihoko Arai, Hideaki Kawabata,
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Abstract(in English) Facial attractiveness is appraised in a rapid and automatic fashion, and attractive faces capture greater attention. In this research, we used a continuous flash suppression, in which monocularly viewed stimuli are temporally erased from visual awareness, to test the possibility that facial attractiveness is processed even at an unconscious level. Results showed that the suppression duration was modulated by facial attractiveness, suggesting appraisal of facial attractiveness can occur even without conscious perception of faces. Further, not only physically attractive faces but also beloved faces captured greater attention and prolonged the duration of awareness of faces.
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Keyword(in English) Facial Attractiveness / Continuous Flash Suppression / Unconscious Processing
Paper # HCS2015-16,HIP2015-16
Date of Issue 2015-05-12 (HCS, HIP)

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Committee HCS / HIP / HI-SIGCE
Conference Date 2015/5/19(2days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Industry Support Center
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Communication Enhancing, Human Communications, and Human Information Processing
Chair Kinya Fujita(Tokyo Univ. of Agric. and Tech.) / Hideyuki Ando(Osaka Univ.)
Vice Chair Kyoko Ito(Osaka Univ.) / Masafumi Matsuda(NTT) / Masahiro Ishii(Sapporo City Univ.) / Miyuki Kamachi(Kogakuin Univ.)
Secretary Kyoko Ito(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masafumi Matsuda(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Masahiro Ishii(NICT) / Miyuki Kamachi(KDDI R&D Labs.) / (Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant Yuugo Hayashi(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Masashi Komori(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) / Takahiro Tanaka(Nagoya Univ.) / Haruka Yoshida(NEC) / Sinobu Kuroki(NTT) / Mutsumi Suganuma(Waseda Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science / Technical Committee on Human Information Processing / Special Interest Group on Communication Enhancement
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Unconscious processing of facial attractiveness under continuous flash suppression
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Facial Attractiveness
Keyword(2) Continuous Flash Suppression
Keyword(3) Unconscious Processing
1st Author's Name Koyo Nakamura
1st Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shihoko Arai
2nd Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hideaki Kawabata
3rd Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
Date 2015-05-19
Paper # HCS2015-16,HIP2015-16
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) HCS-35,HIP-36
Page pp.pp.121-126(HCS), pp.121-126(HIP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-05-12 (HCS, HIP)