Auditory-Visual Aversive Stimuli Modulate the Conscious Experience of Fear

摘要: In a natural environment, affective information is perceived via multiple senses, mostly audition and vision. However, the impact of multisensory on affect remains relatively undiscovered. this study, we investigated whether auditory–visual presentation aversive stimuli influences experience fear. We used advantages virtual reality to manipulate display potentially fearful dog embedded in context. manipulated reactions evoked by recruiting two groups participants: dog-fearful non-fearful participants. The sensitivity fear was assessed psychometrically questionnaire also at behavioral subjective levels using Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT). Participants navigated environments, which they encountered presented through auditory channel, visual channel or both. They were asked report their Subjective Units Distress. compared for unimodal (visual auditory) bimodal (auditory– visual) stimuli. Dog-fearful participants as well reported more response audiovisual These results suggest that intense when processed sensory pathways, might be due cross-modal potentiation. Our findings have implications field reality-based therapy phobias. Therapies could refined improved implicating manipulating feared situations.