scholarly journals Is Age-related Decline in Vocal Emotion Identification an Artefact of Labelling Cognitions?

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel L. C. Mitchell ◽  
Rachel A. Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Vocal Emotion

Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes

2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (5) ◽  
pp. 1020-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana R. Gonçalves ◽  
Carina Fernandes ◽  
Rita Pasion ◽  
Fernando Ferreira-Santos ◽  
Fernando Barbosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Age Related Changes

scholarly journals Effects of age on the identification of emotions in facial expressions: a meta-analysis

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana R. Gonçalves ◽  
Carina Fernandes ◽  
Rita Pasion ◽  
Fernando Ferreira-Santos ◽  
Fernando Barbosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Meta Regression ◽  
Meta Regression Analysis

Background Emotion identification is a fundamental component of social cognition. Although it is well established that a general cognitive decline occurs with advancing age, the effects of age on emotion identification is still unclear. A meta-analysis by Ruffman and colleagues (2008) explored this issue, but much research has been published since then, reporting inconsistent findings. Methods To examine age differences in the identification of facial expressions of emotion, we conducted a meta-analysis of 24 empirical studies (N = 1,033 older adults, N = 1,135 younger adults) published after 2008. Additionally, a meta-regression analysis was conducted to identify potential moderators. Results Results show that older adults less accurately identify facial expressions of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, and happiness compared to younger adults, strengthening the results obtained by Ruffman et al. (2008). However, meta-regression analyses indicate that effect sizes are moderated by sample characteristics and stimulus features. Importantly, the estimated effect size for the identification of fear and disgust increased for larger differences in the number of years of formal education between the two groups. Discussion We discuss several factors that might explain the age-related differences in emotion identification and suggest how brain changes may account for the observed pattern. Furthermore, moderator effects are interpreted and discussed.

Corrigendum to ‘Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes’ [Clin. Neurophysiol. 129 (2018) 1020–1029]

2019 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
pp. 1079-1080
Author(s):  
Ana R. Gonçalves ◽  
Carina Fernandes ◽  
Rita Pasion ◽  
Fernando Ferreira-Santos ◽  
Fernando Barbosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Age Related Changes

scholarly journals Early language competence, but not general cognitive ability, predicts children’s recognition of emotion from facial and vocal cues

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9118
Author(s):  
Sarah Griffiths ◽  
Shaun Kok Yew Goh ◽  
Courtenay Fraiser Norbury ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Vocal Emotion ◽  
Emotion Cues

The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early language skills and recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues in a representative UK population cohort with diverse language and cognitive skills (N = 369), including a large sample of children that met criteria for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD, N = 97). Language skills, but not non-verbal cognitive ability, at age 5–6 predicted emotion recognition at age 10–12. Children that met the criteria for DLD showed a large deficit in recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues. The results highlight the importance of language in supporting identification of emotions from non-verbal cues. Impairments in emotion identification may be one mechanism by which language disorder in early childhood predisposes children to later adverse social and mental health outcomes.

scholarly journals Vocal emotion recognition in school-age children: normative data for the EmoHI test

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Nagels ◽  
Etienne Gaudrain ◽  
Debi Vickers ◽  
Marta Matos Lopes ◽  
Petra Hendriks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Impaired Hearing ◽  
Slow Development ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Vocal Emotion Recognition ◽  
Vocal Emotion

Traditionally, emotion recognition research has primarily used pictures and videos while audio test materials have received less attention and are not always readily available. Particularly for testing vocal emotion recognition in hearing-impaired listeners, the audio quality of assessment materials may becrucial. Here, we present a vocal emotion recognition test with non-language specific pseudospeech productions of multiple speakers expressing three core emotions (happy, angry, and sad): the EmoHI test. Recorded with high sound quality, the test is suitable to use with populations of children and adults with normal or impaired hearing, and across different languages. In the present study, we obtained normative data for vocal emotion recognition development in normal-hearing school-age (4-12 years) children using the EmoHI test. In addition, we tested Dutch and English children to investigate cross-language effects. Our results show that children’s emotion recognition accuracy scores improved significantly with age from the youngest group tested on (mean accuracy 4-6 years: 48.9%), but children’s performance did not reach adult-like values (mean accuracy adults: 94.1%) even for the oldest age group tested (mean accuracy 10-12 years: 81.1%). Furthermore, the effect of age on children’s development did not differ across languages. The strong but slow development in children’s ability to recognize vocal emotions emphasizes the role of auditory experience in forming robust representations of vocal emotions. The wide range of age-related performances that are captured and the lack of significant differences across the tested languages affirm the usability and versatility of the EmoHI test.

scholarly journals Vocal emotion recognition in school-age children: normative data for the EmoHI test

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Nagels ◽  
Etienne Gaudrain ◽  
Debi Vickers ◽  
Marta Matos Lopes ◽  
Petra Hendriks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Impaired Hearing ◽  
Slow Development ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Vocal Emotion Recognition ◽  
Vocal Emotion

Traditionally, emotion recognition research has primarily used pictures and videos while audio test materials have received less attention and are not always readily available. Particularly for testing vocal emotion recognition in hearing-impaired listeners, the audio quality of assessment materials may becrucial. Here, we present a vocal emotion recognition test with non-language specific pseudospeech productions of multiple speakers expressing three core emotions (happy, angry, and sad): the EmoHI test. Recorded with high sound quality, the test is suitable to use with populations of children and adults with normal or impaired hearing, and across different languages. In the present study, we obtained normative data for vocal emotion recognition development in normal-hearing school-age (4-12 years) children using the EmoHI test. In addition, we tested Dutch and English children to investigate cross-language effects. Our results show that children’s emotion recognition accuracy scores improved significantly with age from the youngest group tested on (mean accuracy 4-6 years: 48.9%), but children’s performance did not reach adult-like values (mean accuracy adults: 94.1%) even for the oldest age group tested (mean accuracy 10-12 years: 81.1%). Furthermore, the effect of age on children’s development did not differ across languages. The strong but slow development in children’s ability to recognize vocal emotions emphasizes the role of auditory experience in forming robust representations of vocal emotions. The wide range of age-related performances that are captured and the lack of significant differences across the tested languages affirm the usability and versatility of the EmoHI test.

Vocal emotion identification and quality of life in adult cochlear implant users

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 2711-2711
Author(s):  
Stephanie Strong ◽  
Aaron C. Moberly ◽  
Kara J. Vasil ◽  
Valeriy Shafiro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Vocal Emotion

Aging Affects Identification of Vocal Emotions in Semantically Neutral Sentences

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 1061-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Dupuis ◽  
M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Emotional Speech ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Pleasant Surprise ◽  
Auditory Acuity

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.

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