論文

査読有り
2015年3月

Unconscious Presentation of Fearful Face Modulates Electrophysiological Responses to Emotional Prosody

CEREBRAL CORTEX
  • Hirokazu Doi
  • ,
  • Kazuyuki Shinohara

25
3
開始ページ
817
終了ページ
832
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1093/cercor/bht282
出版者・発行元
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC

Cross-modal integration of visual and auditory emotional cues is supposed to be advantageous in the accurate recognition of emotional signals. However, the neural locus of cross-modal integration between affective prosody and unconsciously presented facial expression in the neurologically intact population is still elusive at this point. The present study examined the influences of unconsciously presented facial expressions on the event-related potentials (ERPs) in emotional prosody recognition. In the experiment, fearful, happy, and neutral faces were presented without awareness by continuous flash suppression simultaneously with voices containing laughter and a fearful shout. The conventional peak analysis revealed that the ERPs were modulated interactively by emotional prosody and facial expression at multiple latency ranges, indicating that audio-visual integration of emotional signals takes place automatically without conscious awareness. In addition, the global field power during the late-latency range was larger for shout than for laughter only when a fearful face was presented unconsciously. The neural locus of this effect was localized to the left posterior fusiform gyrus, giving support to the view that the cortical region, traditionally considered to be unisensory region for visual processing, functions as the locus of audiovisual integration of emotional signals.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht282
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000351935800020&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1093/cercor/bht282
  • ISSN : 1047-3211
  • eISSN : 1460-2199
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000351935800020

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