Emotional perception of multimodal and multivalent audiovisual stimuli

<p><strong>Context and relevance.</strong> The article analyzes the characteristics of the emotional state of individuals who are exposed to external audiovisual stimuli. <strong>Objective.</strong> In particular, the peculiarities of the formation of subjective emotional images that arise as a result of the interaction of multimodal (sound, image) and multivalent (positive, negative valence) affective audiovisual stimuli from the international databases IAPS and IADS are studied. <strong>Methods and materials.</strong> Cognitive displays of affective stimuli were assessed using the standardized Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) method of self-diagnosis of emotional reactions on three scales: valence, arousal and dominance. The <strong>results </strong>obtained are analyzed from the point of view of the theory of information images/representations. <strong>Conclusions. </strong>As a result, new patterns of influence of various combinations of multimodal and multivalent audiovisual stimuli on their initial individual emotional perception were identified.</p>