Previous research has shown that redundant information in faces and voices leads to faster
emotional categorization compared to incongruent emotional information even when
attending to only one modality. The aim of the present study was to test whether these
crossmodal effects are predominantly due to a response conflict rather than interference at
earlier, eg perceptual processing stages. In Experiment 1, participants had to categorize the
valence and rate the intensity of happy, sad, angry and neutral unimodal or bimodal face …