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Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West

Evidence that culture modulates on-line neural responses to the emotional meanings encoded by vocal and facial expressions was demonstrated recently in a study comparing English North Americans and Chinese (Liu et al., 2015). Here, we compared how individuals from these two cultures passively respon...

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Autores principales: Liu, Pan, Rigoulot, Simon, Pell, Marc D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26074808
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00311
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description Evidence that culture modulates on-line neural responses to the emotional meanings encoded by vocal and facial expressions was demonstrated recently in a study comparing English North Americans and Chinese (Liu et al., 2015). Here, we compared how individuals from these two cultures passively respond to emotional cues from faces and voices using an Oddball task. Participants viewed in-group emotional faces, with or without simultaneous vocal expressions, while performing a face-irrelevant visual task as the EEG was recorded. A significantly larger visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN) was observed for Chinese vs. English participants when faces were accompanied by voices, suggesting that Chinese were influenced to a larger extent by task-irrelevant vocal cues. These data highlight further differences in how adults from East Asian vs. Western cultures process socio-emotional cues, arguing that distinct cultural practices in communication (e.g., display rules) shape neurocognitive activity associated with the early perception and integration of multi-sensory emotional cues.
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spelling pubmed-44480342015-06-12 Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West Liu, Pan Rigoulot, Simon Pell, Marc D. Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Evidence that culture modulates on-line neural responses to the emotional meanings encoded by vocal and facial expressions was demonstrated recently in a study comparing English North Americans and Chinese (Liu et al., 2015). Here, we compared how individuals from these two cultures passively respond to emotional cues from faces and voices using an Oddball task. Participants viewed in-group emotional faces, with or without simultaneous vocal expressions, while performing a face-irrelevant visual task as the EEG was recorded. A significantly larger visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN) was observed for Chinese vs. English participants when faces were accompanied by voices, suggesting that Chinese were influenced to a larger extent by task-irrelevant vocal cues. These data highlight further differences in how adults from East Asian vs. Western cultures process socio-emotional cues, arguing that distinct cultural practices in communication (e.g., display rules) shape neurocognitive activity associated with the early perception and integration of multi-sensory emotional cues. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4448034/ /pubmed/26074808 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00311 Text en Copyright © 2015 Liu, Rigoulot and Pell. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West
title_full Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West
title_fullStr Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West
title_full_unstemmed Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West
title_short Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West
title_sort cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing east and west
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26074808
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00311
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