Multisensory integration of affective faces and voices in psychosis proneness.

ABSTRACT: It has been proposed that dysfunctions in emotional multisensory integration (MSI) could contribute to the development of psychosis. To further substantiate this proposition, we investigated whether impaired MSI of emotional cues can be observed in people with high psychosis proneness without a diagnosis of psychosis and whether it is associated with aberrant perception and psychotic experiences. Adults scoring high vs. low on the positive subscale of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (score ≥9 or <9, respectively; n = 36 each) categorized the perceived emotion and rated the intensity of unimodal, bimodal emotionally congruent and bimodal emotionally incongruent dynamic face-voice stimuli. In different blocks, participants were asked to attend to one modality and to ignore th

SUBMITTER: Weiss A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12454648 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature