The recognition of emotional prosody in students with blindness: Effects of early visual experience and age development |
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| Authors: | Xiaomeng Chen Zehui Liu Ming-Hui Lu Xiaoxue Yao |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Special Education Department, School of Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;2. Yunxiang School of Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China;3. Special Education Department, School of Education, Guangzhou University, China |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the role of early visual experience and age in the recognition of emotional prosody among students with visual impairments in China. A total of 75 primary and junior high school students participated in the study. The ability of participants to recognize the prosody of four basic emotions (sadness, anger, happiness, and neutrality) was explored. The findings were as follows. (1) Early visual experience had a significant effect on the recognition of emotional prosody. The accuracy rate of students with congenital blindness was lower than that of students with adventitious blindness, and the performance of students with congenital blindness was lower than that of sighted students. The students with congenital blindness exhibited the slowest recognition speeds. (2) Age had a significant effect on the emotional prosody recognition accuracy of the sighted students, but it had no effect on the students with blindness. |
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| Keywords: | early visual experience Age development emotional prosody recognition |
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