Abstract
Commentary: Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West.
Highlights
On the basis of their visual mismatch negativity results, Liu et al (2015) claim that processing of facial emotions is different between Chinese and Canadian people
Eastern people are more sensitive to non-visual aspects of the environment, e.g., to the emotional tone of speech presented in the background of photographs of faces
There were photographs among the faces showing a frequent emotion category and a rare one. Such sequences were presented to Chinese and Canadian participants; same race photographs were used for each group
Summary
A commentary on Cultural differences in on-line sensitivity to emotional voices: comparing East and West by Liu, P., Rigoulot, S., and Pell, M. On the basis of their visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) results, Liu et al (2015) claim that processing of facial emotions is different between Chinese (and more generally “Eastern”) and Canadian (and more generally “Western”) people. Eastern people are more sensitive to non-visual aspects of the environment, e.g., to the emotional tone of speech presented in the background of photographs of faces.
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