Journal article
A Functional Coupling of Brain and Behavior During Social Categorization of Faces
Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.47(11), pp.1580-1595
11/01/2021
DOI: 10.1177/0146167220976688
PMCID: 8263806
PMID: 33419384
Abstract
Considerable research has focused on how people derive information about others' social category memberships from their faces. Theoretical models posit that early extraction of task-relevant information from a face should determine the efficiency with which that face is categorized, but evidence supporting this idea has been elusive. Here, we used a novel trial-level data analytic approach to examine the relationship between two event-related potential components-the P2, indexing early attention to category-relevant information, and the P3, indexing stimulus evaluation-and the speed of overt categorization judgments. As predicted, a larger face-elicited P2 on a particular trial was associated with faster overt race or gender categorization of that face. Moreover, this association was mediated by P3 latency, indicating that extraction of more category-relevant information early in processing facilitated stimulus evaluation. These findings support continuous flow models of information processing and the long-theorized functional significance of face-elicited neurophysiological responses for social categorization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Functional Coupling of Brain and Behavior During Social Categorization of Faces
- Creators
- Hannah Volpert-Esmond - The University of Texas at El PasoBruce D. Bartholow - University of Missouri
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.47(11), pp.1580-1595
- DOI
- 10.1177/0146167220976688
- PMID
- 33419384
- PMCID
- 8263806
- NLM abbreviation
- Pers Soc Psychol Bull
- ISSN
- 0146-1672
- eISSN
- 1552-7433
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- F31 MD012751 / National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Council grant from the University of Missouri R01 AA025451 / National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) Life Sciences Graduate Fellowship from the University of Missouri
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984446411202771
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