Similar patterns of age-related differences in emotion recognition from speech and music |
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Authors: | Petri Laukka Patrik N Juslin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1225, 751 42 Uppsala, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Young and old adults’ ability to recognize emotions from vocal expressions and music performances was compared. The stimuli
consisted of (a) acted speech (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness; each posed with both weak and strong emotion
intensity), (b) synthesized speech (anger, fear, happiness, and sadness), and (c) short melodies played on the electric guitar
(anger, fear, happiness, and sadness; each played with both weak and strong emotion intensity). The listeners’ recognition
of discrete emotions and emotion intensity was assessed and the recognition rates were controlled for various response biases.
Results showed emotion-specific age-related differences in recognition accuracy. Old adults consistently received significantly
lower recognition rates for negative, but not for positive, emotions for both speech and music stimuli. Some age-related differences
were also evident in the listeners’ ratings of emotion intensity. The results show the importance of considering individual
emotions in studies on age-related differences in emotion recognition. |
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Keywords: | Aging Emotion Music Speech Vocal expression |
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