Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture?
IntroductionIndividuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. In contrast, those from East-Asian cultures rely more on voices. This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whet...
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| author | Anna K. Nakamura Anna K. Nakamura Hisako W. Yamamoto Hisako W. Yamamoto Sachiko Takagi Tetsuya Matsuda Hiroyuki Okada Chiaki Ishiguro Chiaki Ishiguro Akihiro Tanaka |
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| description | IntroductionIndividuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. In contrast, those from East-Asian cultures rely more on voices. This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whether common features of migration produce a similar modification regardless of the destination.MethodsWe examined how immigrants from Western countries to Japan perceive emotional expressions from faces and voices using MRI scanning.ResultsImmigrants behaviorally exhibited a decrease in the influence of emotions in voices with a longer stay in Japan. Additionally, immigrants with a longer stay showed a higher response in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, a brain region associated with audiovisual emotional integration, when processing emotionally congruent faces and voices.DiscussionThese modifications imply that immigrants from Western cultures tend to rely even less on voices, in contrast to the tendency of voice-dominance observed in native Japanese people. This change may be explained by the decreased focus on prosodic aspects of voices during second language acquisition. The current and further exploration will aid in the better adaptation of immigrants to a new cultural society. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-39df585a3732453db816120d463ebaf92025-01-29T06:45:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-01-011610.3389/fpsyg.2025.15332741533274Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture?Anna K. Nakamura0Anna K. Nakamura1Hisako W. Yamamoto2Hisako W. Yamamoto3Sachiko Takagi4Tetsuya Matsuda5Hiroyuki Okada6Chiaki Ishiguro7Chiaki Ishiguro8Akihiro Tanaka9School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, JapanJapan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, JapanSchool of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, JapanDepartment of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Ibaraki, JapanFaculty of Human Science, Tokiwa University, Mito, JapanBrain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Machida, JapanBrain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Machida, JapanBrain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Machida, JapanFaculty of Liberal Arts, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, JapanSchool of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Tokyo, JapanIntroductionIndividuals from Western cultures rely on facial expressions during the audiovisual emotional processing of faces and voices. In contrast, those from East-Asian cultures rely more on voices. This study aimed to investigate whether immigrants adopt the tendency of the host culture or whether common features of migration produce a similar modification regardless of the destination.MethodsWe examined how immigrants from Western countries to Japan perceive emotional expressions from faces and voices using MRI scanning.ResultsImmigrants behaviorally exhibited a decrease in the influence of emotions in voices with a longer stay in Japan. Additionally, immigrants with a longer stay showed a higher response in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, a brain region associated with audiovisual emotional integration, when processing emotionally congruent faces and voices.DiscussionThese modifications imply that immigrants from Western cultures tend to rely even less on voices, in contrast to the tendency of voice-dominance observed in native Japanese people. This change may be explained by the decreased focus on prosodic aspects of voices during second language acquisition. The current and further exploration will aid in the better adaptation of immigrants to a new cultural society.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1533274/fullimmigrationaudiovisual processingemotion perceptionfunctional MRIright posterior superior temporal gyrus |
| spellingShingle | Anna K. Nakamura Anna K. Nakamura Hisako W. Yamamoto Hisako W. Yamamoto Sachiko Takagi Tetsuya Matsuda Hiroyuki Okada Chiaki Ishiguro Chiaki Ishiguro Akihiro Tanaka Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? Frontiers in Psychology immigration audiovisual processing emotion perception functional MRI right posterior superior temporal gyrus |
| title | Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? |
| title_full | Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? |
| title_fullStr | Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? |
| title_short | Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? |
| title_sort | immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults is this really an influence of the host culture |
| topic | immigration audiovisual processing emotion perception functional MRI right posterior superior temporal gyrus |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1533274/full |
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