Abstract
This study aims to further examine the cross-cultural differences in multisensory emo-
tion perception between Western and East Asian people. In this study, we recorded
the audiovisual stimulus video of Japanese actors saying neutral phrase with one of the
basic emotions. Then we conducted a validation experiment of the stimuli. In the first
part (facial expression), participants watched a silent video of actors and judged what
kind of emotion the actor is expressing by choosing among 6 options (i.e., happiness,
anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, and fear). In the second part (vocal expression), they
listened to the audio part of the same videos without video images while the task was
the same. We analyzed their categorization responses based on accuracy and confusion
matrix, and discussed the tendency of emotion perception by Japanese.
