Abs ' rac 重 This study was aimed at examining a 皿 interference betWeen the processing ofexpression and word ( Kanji ) processing using Stroop − like task . The task ofparticipants was to judge whether the meaning of a letter shown on a nose or an expression of the face was a positive or negative . The results of the experiment showed the automatic processing of face ( an expression ) 血 terfered with the semantic processing of kanji word , On the other hand, the positive words facilitated only

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... e processing ofa happy expression . These results suggested that the asymmetry in the interference between emotional word processing and facial expression processing depended on the process 血 g speed ofthe verbal material used .