Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the asymmetric relationship between facial expression and identity within facial recognition (the effects of identity on facial expression recognition) using a selective attention task (Garner paradigm). In Experiment 1, 32 participants judged either the expression or identity of faces, while the irrelevant dimension of identity or expression was either held constant or varied. In this experiment, we presented inverted faces for which it is difficult to process configural information. In Experiment 2, 32 participants took part in an experiment using the same procedure as Experiment 1, except that we presented negative images of the faces for which it is difficult to process surface information. In both experiments, facial identity did not affect facial expression recognition. The results suggest that configural information and surface information for facial identity affect facial expression recognition.
