I feel your voice: Cultural differences in the multisensory perception of emotion

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1259-1262

  Tanaka, Akihiro ^a,b   Koizumi, Ai ^b   Imai, Hisato ^c   Hiramatsu, Saori ^c   Hiramoto, Eriko ^c   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

audiovisual speech; cultural difference; emotion; multisensory perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649878180     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610380698     Document Type: Article

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