Emotional voice and emotional body postures influence each other independently of visual awareness.

Multisensory integration may occur independently of visual attention as previously shown with compound face-voice stimuli. We investigated in two experiments whether the perception of whole body expressions and the perception of voices influence each other when observers are not aware of seeing the...

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Main Authors: Bernard M C Stienen, Akihiro Tanaka, Beatrice de Gelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3189200?pdf=render