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ranges. From our result, we observe an angry-visual
and happy-auditory preferential association. This
effect might be due to a well-known reaction of
preparation to danger (the Colavita visual
dominance effect, see e.g. van Damme, et al., 2009):
perception of angry emotion means a potential
danger, which would place the subject in a
preferential visual dominance mode. Threatening
facial expression also induces avoidance behaviour,
visible in eye-tracking (Rigoulot and Pell, 2012).
These effects might be correlates of the EEG
occipital area alpha range increase.
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