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Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices
The perception of emotions is often suggested to be multimodal in nature, and bimodal as compared to unimodal (auditory or visual) presentation of emotional stimuli can lead to superior emotion recognition. In previous studies, contrastive aftereffects in emotion perception caused by perceptual adap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24236215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081691 |
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author | Skuk, Verena G. Schweinberger, Stefan R. |
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description | The perception of emotions is often suggested to be multimodal in nature, and bimodal as compared to unimodal (auditory or visual) presentation of emotional stimuli can lead to superior emotion recognition. In previous studies, contrastive aftereffects in emotion perception caused by perceptual adaptation have been shown for faces and for auditory affective vocalization, when adaptors were of the same modality. By contrast, crossmodal aftereffects in the perception of emotional vocalizations have not been demonstrated yet. In three experiments we investigated the influence of emotional voice as well as dynamic facial video adaptors on the perception of emotion-ambiguous voices morphed on an angry-to-happy continuum. Contrastive aftereffects were found for unimodal (voice) adaptation conditions, in that test voices were perceived as happier after adaptation to angry voices, and vice versa. Bimodal (voice + dynamic face) adaptors tended to elicit larger contrastive aftereffects. Importantly, crossmodal (dynamic face) adaptors also elicited substantial aftereffects in male, but not in female participants. Our results (1) support the idea of contrastive processing of emotions (2), show for the first time crossmodal adaptation effects under certain conditions, consistent with the idea that emotion processing is multimodal in nature, and (3) suggest gender differences in the sensory integration of facial and vocal emotional stimuli. |
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spelling | pubmed-38274842013-11-14 Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices Skuk, Verena G. Schweinberger, Stefan R. PLoS One Research Article The perception of emotions is often suggested to be multimodal in nature, and bimodal as compared to unimodal (auditory or visual) presentation of emotional stimuli can lead to superior emotion recognition. In previous studies, contrastive aftereffects in emotion perception caused by perceptual adaptation have been shown for faces and for auditory affective vocalization, when adaptors were of the same modality. By contrast, crossmodal aftereffects in the perception of emotional vocalizations have not been demonstrated yet. In three experiments we investigated the influence of emotional voice as well as dynamic facial video adaptors on the perception of emotion-ambiguous voices morphed on an angry-to-happy continuum. Contrastive aftereffects were found for unimodal (voice) adaptation conditions, in that test voices were perceived as happier after adaptation to angry voices, and vice versa. Bimodal (voice + dynamic face) adaptors tended to elicit larger contrastive aftereffects. Importantly, crossmodal (dynamic face) adaptors also elicited substantial aftereffects in male, but not in female participants. Our results (1) support the idea of contrastive processing of emotions (2), show for the first time crossmodal adaptation effects under certain conditions, consistent with the idea that emotion processing is multimodal in nature, and (3) suggest gender differences in the sensory integration of facial and vocal emotional stimuli. Public Library of Science 2013-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3827484/ /pubmed/24236215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081691 Text en © 2013 Skuk, Schweinberger http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Skuk, Verena G. Schweinberger, Stefan R. Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title | Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title_full | Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title_fullStr | Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title_full_unstemmed | Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title_short | Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices |
title_sort | adaptation aftereffects in vocal emotion perception elicited by expressive faces and voices |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24236215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081691 |
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