Abstract
This study was aimed at examining an interference between the processing of expression and word (Kanji) processing using Stroop-like task. The task of participants was to judge whether the meaning of a letter shown on a nose or an expression of the face was a positive or negative. The results of the experiment showed the automatic processing of face (an expression) interfered with the semantic processing of kanji word. On the other hand, the positive words facilitated only the processing of a happy expression. These results suggested that the asymmetry in the interference between emotional word processing and facial expression processing depended on the processing speed of the verbal material used.
