文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Extrafoveal processing of happy face relies on visual awareness in hearing-impaired adults

作者：Xu, Qian[1,2];Hu, Zhaoqi[3];Wu, Nan[1,2];Tian, Moqian[1,2];Xu, Juan[4];Liu, Shixiang[1,2];Mou, Shu[1,2]

第一作者：徐茜

通讯作者：Mou, S[1];Mou, S[2]

机构：[1]Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China;[2]Beijing Union Univ, Learning & Psychol Dev Inst Children & Adolescents, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China;[3]Wuhan Univ, Dept Psychol, 299 Bayi Rd, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, Peoples R China;[4]Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China

第一机构：北京联合大学师范学院

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China;[2]corresponding author), Beijing Union Univ, Learning & Psychol Dev Inst Children & Adolescents, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China.|[11417]北京联合大学;[1141711]北京联合大学师范学院;

年份：2025

卷号：89

期号：4

外文期刊名：PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG

收录：;Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-105012898619);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001547716800001)】；

基金：We are grateful to all the hearing-impaired students for their participation in this study! Many thanks to Prof. You Yu, from the Special Education College of our university, for contacting student assistants and the computer room.

语种：英文

摘要：Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit. Deaf adults outperform hearing adults in terms of the visual processing of extrafoveal moving stimuli and fearful facial expressions, probably due to compensatory mechanisms. However, it remains unresolved whether these enhanced visual abilities also apply to happy facial expressions, which are the most universally recognized and prioritized prosocial signals among all the facial expressions. To address this question, we aimed to investigate hearing-impaired adults' processing of happy faces at unconscious (Experiment 1) and conscious (Experiment 2) levels. In Experiment 1, we paired backward-masked faces with supraliminal faces in both visual fields and asked participants to perform a go/no-go task only for the supraliminal faces. Results revealed that the discrimination of visible emotional faces (either happy or neutral) was modulated by the facial expressions of the backward-masked faces in the opposite visual field. The emotionally congruent condition showed higher accuracy than the incongruent condition. However, this effect was observed only for participants whose visual awareness of backward-masked faces was above the chance level in the final awareness check task. Results of Experiment 2 demonstrated that the conscious processing of happy faces remained intact in hearing-impaired adults, as reflected in the happy-face recognition advantage in reaction time. Overall, these findings imply that extrafoveal happy face processing relies on visual awareness in hearing-impaired adults. The present study provides insights into the visual perception ability of facial expressions in the hearing-impaired population.