NDLI: Aging Affects Identification of Vocal Emotions in Semantically Neutral Sentences.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Dupuis, Kate Pichora-Fuller, M. Kathleen
Abstract	PURPOSE: The authors determined the accuracy of younger and older adults in identifying vocal emotions using the Toronto Emotional Speech Set (TESS; Dupuis & Pichora-Fuller, 2010a) and investigated the possible contributions of auditory acuity and suprathreshold processing to emotion identification accuracy. METHOD: In 2 experiments, younger and older adults with normal hearing listened to and identified vocal emotions in the TESS stimuli. The TESS consists of phrases with controlled syntactic, lexical, and phonological properties spoken by an older female talker and a younger female talker to convey 7 emotion conditions (anger, disgust, fear, sadness, neutral, happiness, and pleasant surprise). Participants in both experiments completed audiometric testing; participants in Experiment 2 also completed 3 tests of suprathreshold auditory processing. RESULTS: Identification by both age groups was above chance for all emotions. Accuracy was lower for older adults in both experiments. The pattern of results was similar across age groups and experiments. Auditory acuity did not predict identification accuracy for either age group in either experiment, nor did performance on tests of auditory processing in Experiment 2. CONCLUSIONS: These results replicate and extend previous findings concerning age-related differences in ability to identify vocal emotions and suggest that older adults' auditory abilities do not explain their difficulties in identifying vocal emotions.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	10924388
Issue Number	3
Journal	Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Volume Number	58
e-ISSN	15589102
Language	English
Publisher	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Publisher Date	2015-06-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Discipline Audiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Speech and Hearing Linguistics and Language

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