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More data are needed to support the hypotheses developed and described above, for example, by extending the proposed perceptual experiments to the members of other Western and non-Western countries, as well as by defining and exploiting cross-modal databases extracted from different cultural and linguistic context. Some considerations for improving the present work’s outcome can also be made. Taking advantage of the huge number of participants testing the proposed databases, a re-definition of the collected stimuli can be planned accounting for the subjects’ agreement on each stimulus labeling.

The emotional stimuli are portrayed through the visual, auditory, and audiovisual mode. Results show that the emotional visual information share distinctive features across cultures, allowing similar emotional recognition accuracy among the different cultural groups participating to the experiments whereas the recognition accuracy of vocal emotional expressions is affected by the language specificity. 1 Á Á Á Á Á Cross-Cultural Comparison To assess the effects of the cultural context and language, a cross-cultural comparison was made, where the performance of each participating country was separately evaluated on each American and Italian set of stimuli.

A discussion on the recognition accuracy of some of basic emotion is also reported. Á Á Keywords Cross-Cultural experiments Language familiarity Emotional database Cultural specificity Emotional recognition Dynamic expressions Cultural effects Emotion categories Auditory emotional information Visual emotional information Á Á Á Á Á Á Á The present work focused on perceptual experiments, involving separate groups of Italian, American, French, Hungarian, and Lithuanian participants, with the aim to explore the ability to recognize emotional expressions dynamically portrayed through the visual and auditory channel across close cultures.