Dissociating effects of gaze direction and facial motion on memory of dynamic faces.
Research on dynamic face processing often emphasizes facial movements while overlooking how social information conveyed by moving faces influences face perception and memory. Our study investigated how eye gaze, a critical social cue, affects the memory of dynamic faces and whether the effect genera...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 605 - 622 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=192010497&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 192010497 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2026 vid: 54 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 192010497 10.3758/s13421-025-01770-5 ppf: 605 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Dissociating effects of gaze direction and facial motion on memory of dynamic faces. aug: au: Feng, Xinran Zhao, Mintao Zhou, Guomei affil: https://ror.org/0064kty71 Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China https://ror.org/03cve4549 Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China https://ror.org/026k5mg93 School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK su: Recognition (Psychology) Undergraduates Social perception Attention Memory Analysis of variance Facial expression Facial anatomy Research funding Three-dimensional imaging Human anatomical models Probability theory Biometry Descriptive statistics Experimental design Visual perception Data analysis software Eye movements sug: subj: Recognition (Psychology) Undergraduates Social perception Attention Memory Analysis of variance Facial expression Facial anatomy Research funding Three-dimensional imaging Human anatomical models Probability theory Biometry Descriptive statistics Experimental design Visual perception Data analysis software Eye movements keyword: Eye gaze Face race Face recognition Facial motion Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Social attention Eye gaze Face race Face recognition Facial motion Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Social attention ab: Research on dynamic face processing often emphasizes facial movements while overlooking how social information conveyed by moving faces influences face perception and memory. Our study investigated how eye gaze, a critical social cue, affects the memory of dynamic faces and whether the effect generalizes across facial motion (e.g., rigid and elastic motion) and own- and other-race faces. We employed a recognition memory task across three experiments to address these questions. Experiment 1 compared memory following learning static or moving faces and showed better memory for static and elastically moving faces (i.e., with a direct gaze) than for rigidly moving faces (i.e., with varying gaze directions), more so for own- than other-race faces. Experiment 2 manipulated gaze direction in both elastic and rigid facial motion (i.e., direct vs. averted) and showed a direct-gaze advantage. Learning direct-gaze faces, with either rigid or elastic facial motion, produced consistently better memory performance than that after learning averted-gaze faces, which was more pronounced for own-race faces. Experiment 3 manipulated the congruency of gaze direction between learning and test phases for both rigid and elastic facial motion. The advantage of learning direct-gaze faces persisted, irrespective of gaze congruency between study and test faces. These results not only demonstrate the crucial role of social signals, like eye gaze, in face memory but also dissociate the influences of facial motion and its accompanying gaze directions on the memory of dynamic faces, which may help reconcile discrepant findings regarding the effect of facial motion on face perception and recognition. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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