I Feel Your Voice: Cultural Differences in the Multisensory Perception of Emotion
I Feel Your Voice: Cultural Differences in the Multisensory Perception of Emotion
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797610380698
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
de Gelder, Beatrice
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作者：
Tanaka, Akihiro;Koizumi, Ai;de Gelder, Beatrice
据报道，情绪感知的文化差异主要体现在面部表情上，而声音表情的差异较小。然而，感知者结合听觉和视觉线索的方式本身可能受到文化差异的影响。我们的研究调查了日本和荷兰参与者在多感官情感感知方面的文化差异。在每次试验中，都会出现一张表达一致或不一致情绪的脸和声音。参与者被要求判断两种来源中的一种所表达的情绪。在日语中，被忽略的声音信息对面部判断的影响大于荷兰人，而在日语中，被忽略的声音信息对声音判断的影响小于荷兰人。这一结果表明，日本人比荷兰人更能适应多感官感知情绪时的声音处理。我们的发现首次证明了情感信息的多感觉整合是由感知者的文化背景调节的。
Cultural differences in emotion perception have been reported mainly for facial expressions and to a lesser extent for vocal expressions. However, the way in which the perceiver combines auditory and visual cues may itself be subject to cultural variability. Our study investigated cultural differences between Japanese and Dutch participants in the multisensory perception of emotion. A face and a voice, expressing either congruent or incongruent emotions, were presented on each trial. Participants were instructed to judge the emotion expressed in one of the two sources. The effect of to-be-ignored voice information on facial judgments was larger in Japanese than in Dutch participants, whereas the effect of to-be-ignored face information on vocal judgments was smaller in Japanese than in Dutch participants. This result indicates that Japanese people are more attuned than Dutch people to vocal processing in the multisensory perception of emotion. Our findings provide the first evidence that multisensory integration of affective information is modulated by perceivers' cultural background.