Top-down enhancement of nonconscious gaze perception by working memory representations of social cues.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review March 12, 2026 Tian Yuan, Haoyue Ji, Baoyi Zhu et al.
The perception of eye gaze plays a pivotal role in human social interactions, which even occurs outside conscious awareness. However, whether such nonconscious gaze perception is susceptible to top-down cognitive processes, like working memory (WM), remains unclear. Using a delayed match-to-sample paradigm, we investigated the WM modulation on the perception of eye gaze rendered invisible...