Increasing evidence indicates that facial expression and identity are processed interdependently and that visual representations of different facial expressions overlap.
In this study we a used a cross-emotion adaptation paradigm to test whether facial expressions are coded as overlapping representations within a framework comprising identity-dependent and identity-independent elements.
In Experiment 1 the magnitude of disgust–anger aftereffects generated by images of the same person were significantly larger than aftereffects generated
by images of different people.