Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition

Yueyuan ZHANG; Sarah DE LA HARPE; Angeline Y. YANG; William G. HAYWARD; Romina POLERMO; Janet H. HSIAO

Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition

Yueyuan ZHANG, Sarah DE LA HARPE, Angeline Y. YANG, William G. HAYWARD, Romina POLERMO, Janet H. HSIAO

Lingnan University

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Abstract

We examined whether mask use had differential impacts on face and facial expression recognition across cultures, as cultures associated with more eyes-focused face scanning strategies may be less affected. Asian and White participants performed face and facial expression recognition with unmasked and masked Asian and White faces. White participants attended more to the eye region in both tasks; however, their performance was less impaired by mask use only in facial expression recognition. In both tasks, individuals adopting more eyes-focused strategies for unmasked faces were less impaired by mask use. Also, participants had larger performance impairment for judging expressions of Asian than White faces, consistent with the finding that they adopted more nose-focused strategies for Asian than White faces. Thus, although individuals from different cultures or expression recognition of different races may be affected differentially by mask use, these effects may be better explained by individual differences in preferred attention strategies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	Micah GOLDWATER, Florencia ANGGORO, Brett HAYES, Desmong ONG
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
Pages	2193-2200
Volume	45
Publication status	Published - Jul 2023
Event	The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Sydney, Australia Duration: 26 Jul 2023 → 29 Jul 2023 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2023/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Volume	45
ISSN (Electronic)	1069-7977

Conference

Conference	The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated title	CogSci2023
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	26/07/23 → 29/07/23
Internet address	https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2023/

Bibliographical note

We are grateful to RGC of Hong Kong Collaborative Research Fund No. C7129-20G to Dr. J. Hsiao). We thank Tsang, Hei Lam Michelle and Price, Erin for their help in data collection

Keywords

eye movements
EMHMN
face recognition
mask
Emotion recognition

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ZHANG, Y., DE LA HARPE, S., YANG, A. Y., HAYWARD, W. G., POLERMO, R., & HSIAO, J. H. (2023). Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. In M. GOLDWATER, F. ANGGORO, B. HAYES, & D. ONG (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, pp. 2193-2200). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 45). Cognitive Science Society, Inc.. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dk4k4nq

ZHANG, Yueyuan ; DE LA HARPE, Sarah ; YANG, Angeline Y. et al. / Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. editor / Micah GOLDWATER ; Florencia ANGGORO ; Brett HAYES ; Desmong ONG. Vol. 45 Cognitive Science Society, Inc., 2023. pp. 2193-2200 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).

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ZHANG, Y, DE LA HARPE, S, YANG, AY, HAYWARD, WG, POLERMO, R & HSIAO, JH 2023, Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. in M GOLDWATER, F ANGGORO, B HAYES & D ONG (eds), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. vol. 45, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 45, Cognitive Science Society, Inc., pp. 2193-2200, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, 26/07/23. <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dk4k4nq>

Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. / ZHANG, Yueyuan; DE LA HARPE, Sarah; YANG, Angeline Y. et al.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / Micah GOLDWATER; Florencia ANGGORO; Brett HAYES; Desmong ONG. Vol. 45 Cognitive Science Society, Inc., 2023. p. 2193-2200 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 45).

Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Conference paper (refereed) › Referred Conference Paper › peer-review

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ZHANG Y, DE LA HARPE S, YANG AY, HAYWARD WG, POLERMO R, HSIAO JH. Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. In GOLDWATER M, ANGGORO F, HAYES B, ONG D, editors, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 45. Cognitive Science Society, Inc. 2023. p. 2193-2200. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).

Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition

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