Cross-cultural study on audiovisual emotion perception by faces and voices

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Our previous study found that multisensory integration of affective information is modulated by perceivers' cultural background. The purpose of this study is to examine the generalizability of our findings and to examine why cultural differences are observed in the multisensory perception of emotion by faces and voices. Results confirmed that Japanese people are more attuned than Dutch people to vocal processing in the multisensory perception of emotion, even when clear faces are used and even when participants pay attention to both faces and voices. Results also revealed that East Asians are more attuned than Westerners to vocal processing.