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Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Theses/Dissertations

2017

Facial Emotion Recognition; Social Interaction; Memory Maintenance; Facial affect memory; Event-related potential

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Erp And Theta Activity Associated With Facial Emotion Memory, Shaina Roxanne Herman Sep 2017

Erp And Theta Activity Associated With Facial Emotion Memory, Shaina Roxanne Herman

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Facial emotion recognition is an important component of daily functioning and is highly connected to the social element of human interaction. At present, it is not clear whether initial stimulus encoding or memory maintenance of the face promotes accurate facial emotion memory. The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanisms of facial affect memory. Specifically, we aimed to compare whether type of emotion, length of delay interval, or robustness of encoding the initial stimulus were associated with accurate facial emotion recognition and memory. A task of explicit emotion memory was given to 30 participants. A visual stimulus of …