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Comparing Recognition Memory of Faces with Positive/Negative Emotions
Nazanin Fatemian1 , Mehdi Tehrani-Doost * 2, Farnaz Ghassemi3
1- PhD of Cognitive Neuroscience1- Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran; 2- Department of Medical Physics, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Cognitive Neuroscience, 1- Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran; 2- Research Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3- PhD of Medical Engineering-Bio-electrics 1- Department of Biomedical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran; 2- Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran
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    Introduction: The effect of different facial emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, fear and anger…) on face recognition memory has been studied in different researches, but there is controversy in findings of these studies. Therefore, we conducted this study to evaluate the effect of facial emotions on face recognition memory. Method: 45 normal adults (23 men) with normal memory aged between 18 and 35 years participated in this study. A computerized task using happy, neutral and sad faces was designed to evaluate the emotional face memory performance of participants. Data were extracted using the MATLAB (2015b) and then were imported to SPSS16.0. The repeated measure ANOVA was used to analyze the difference among the different facial emotions in terms of percentage of correct response, and correct/incorrect response times. Results: There was a significant difference among the three expressed facial emotions with a significant decrease in recalling happy faces compared to sad and neutral ones (P < 0.05). No difference was found among the different emotions in terms of correct response time. Conclusion: It can be concluded that sad and neutral faces are recalled better than happy faces.
Keywords: Emotional face, Face recognition memory, Positive and negative emotions.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2017/08/27 | Accepted: 2017/10/10 | Published: 2018/09/11
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