#3288. High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues

October 2026publication date
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Clinical Psychology;
Psychiatry and Mental Health;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
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Abstract:
Emotion perception is essential to human interaction and relies on effective integration of emotional cues across sensory modalities. Here, we compared audiovisual integration of emotional cues between individuals with low vs. high trait anxiety. Participants were 62 young adults who were assessed on their ability to quickly and accurately identify happy, angry and sad emotions from dynamic visual-only, audio-only and audiovisual face and voice displays. The results revealed that individuals in the high anxiety group were more likely to integrate angry faces and voices in a statistically optimal fashion. Individuals with high trait anxiety have multisensory mechanisms that are especially fine-tuned for processing threat-related emotions.
Keywords:
Anxiety; Emotion; Maximum likelihood estimation; Multisensory processing; Negative bias; Race model

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