The brain basis of audiovisual affective processing: Evidence from a coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

C Gao, CE Weber, SV Shinkareva - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.

A Fekete, E Specker, J Mikuni… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
It is assumed that multimodal experiences of art (eg, listening to music while viewing a
painting) can improve aesthetic experience as the two modalities can complement each …

The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings.

K Mehl, M Gugliano, AM Belfi - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A ubiquitous aspect of the human experience is the creation of and engagement with art.
While the field of empirical aesthetics has traditionally focused on visual stimuli, researchers …

Nature and the City: Audiovisual interactions in pleasantness and psychophysiological reactions

VB Bogdanov, C Marquis-Favre, M Cottet, B Beffara… - Applied Acoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of natural elements in the urban environment improves wellbeing.
Comparisons of different psychophysiological reactions to both auditory and visual …

An fMRI study of affective congruence across visual and auditory modalities

C Gao, CE Weber, DH Wedell… - Journal of cognitive …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Evaluating multisensory emotional content is a part of normal day-to-day interactions. We
used fMRI to examine brain areas sensitive to congruence of audiovisual valence and their …

Representing the Good and Bad: fMRI signatures during the encoding of multisensory positive, negative, and neutral events

PP Thakral, R Bottary, EA Kensinger - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Few studies have examined how multisensory emotional experiences are processed and
encoded into memory. Here, we aimed to determine whether, at encoding, activity within …

Temporal dynamics of audiovisual affective processing

C Gao, DH Wedell, JJ Green, X Jia, X Mao, C Guo… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course of auditory,
visual, and audiovisual affective processing. Stimuli consisted of naturalistic silent videos …

Modality-general and modality-specific audiovisual valence processing

C Gao, SV Shinkareva - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
A fundamental question in affective neuroscience is whether there is a common hedonic
system for valence processing independent of modality, or there are distinct neural systems …

Crossmodal negativity bias in semantic processing.

C Gao, DH Wedell, SV Shinkareva - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Negative events have greater influence on cognitive processing compared with positive
events, a phenomenon referred to as the negativity bias. Previous studies have shown that …

The effect of auditory valence on subsequent visual semantic processing

C Gao, WM Hayes, M LaPierre… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
Emotion influences many cognitive processes and plays an important role in our daily life.
Previous studies focused on the effects of arousal on subsequent cognitive processing, but …