Yeh, Pei-Wen, Geangu, Elena orcid.org/0000-0002-0398-8398 and Reid, Vincent (2016) Coherent emotional perception from body expressions and the voice. Neuropsychologia. pp. 99-108. ISSN 0028-3932
Abstract
Perceiving emotion from multiple modalities enhances the perceptual sensitivity of an individual. This allows more accurate judgments of others’ emotional states, which is crucial to appropriate social interactions. It is known that body expressions effectively convey emotional messages, although fewer studies have examined how this information is combined with the auditory cues. The present study used event-related potentials (ERP) to investigate the interaction between emotional body expressions and vocalizations. We also examined emotional congruency between auditory and visual information to determine how preceding visual context influences later auditory processing. Consistent with prior findings, a reduced N1 amplitude was observed in the audiovisual condition compared to an auditory-only condition. While this component was not sensitive to the modality congruency, the P2 was sensitive to the emotionally incompatible audiovisual pairs. Further, the direction of these congruency effects was different in terms of facilitation or suppression based on the preceding contexts. Overall, the results indicate a functionally dissociated mechanism underlying two stages of emotional processing whereby N1 is involved in cross-modal processing, whereas P2 is related to assessing a unifying perceptual content. These data also indicate that emotion integration can be affected by the specific emotion that is presented.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. |
Keywords: | Audiovisual processing,Body expressions,Congruency,Cross-modal prediction,EEG/ERP,Emotion |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2017 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07... |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.038 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122578 |
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