There has been longstanding interest from both experimental psychologists and cognitive
neuroscientists in the potential modulatory role of various top–down factors on multisensory …

In everyday life, multiple sensory channels jointly trigger emotional experiences and one
channel may alter processing in another channel. For example, seeing an emotional facial …

Effective interpersonal communication depends on the ability to perceive and interpret
nonverbal emotional expressions from multiple sensory modalities. Current theoretical …

To understand how culture modulates on-line neural responses to social information, this
study compared how individuals from two distinct cultural groups, English-speaking North …

We used human electroencephalogram to study early audiovisual integration of dynamic
angry and neutral expressions. An auditory-only condition served as a baseline for the …

Both facial expression and tone of voice represent key signals of emotional communication
but their brain processing correlates remain unclear. Accordingly, we constructed a novel …

Our brains can integrate emotional signals from visual and auditory modalities, which is
important for our daily social interactions and survival. Although behavioral effects of …

This research explores how same-language subtitles—on-screen text that matches the
spoken language—can enhance advertising effectiveness for television commercials on …

In our natural environment, emotional information is conveyed by converging visual and
auditory information; multimodal integration is of utmost importance. In the laboratory …

Previous studies have shown that the perception of facial and vocal affective expressions
interacts with each other. Facial expressions usually dominate vocal expressions when we …