Modeling crossmodal interactions in emotional audiovisual integration

Introduction: Emotion in daily life is often expressed in a multimodal fashion. Consequently emotional information from one modality can influence processing in another. Although there exists a wide range of literature concerning the areas which are active during emotion processing, little is known about the mechanisms and neural interactions underlying bottom-up and top-down processes in crossmodal emotional integration. In a previous fMRI study, assessing the neural correlates of audio-visual integration, we found that activity in the left amygdala is significantly attenuated when a neutral stimulus is paired…