Visual processing of emotional facial expressions in mixed anxious-depressed subclinical state: An ERPS study

Abstract

while patients with alcoholism did not show impaired processing of happy and neutral audio-visual stimuli, they did have a specific impairment in the cross-modal processing of anger. A source location analysis was used to confirm and illustrate the results. Conclusion: These results suggest that the specific deficit that people with alcoholism demonstrate in processing anger stimuli, widely described in clinical situations but not clearly identified in earlier studies (using unimodal stimuli), is particularly obvious during crossmodal processing, which is more common than unimodal processing in everyday life.