Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background.
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| Title: | Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background. |
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| Authors: | Dor, Yehuda I. (AUTHOR), Algom, Daniel (AUTHOR), Shakuf, Vered (AUTHOR), Ben-David, Boaz M. (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Cognition & Emotion. Nov2025, Vol. 39 Issue 7, p1532-1541. 10p. |
| Subjects: | Age differences, Emotion recognition, Psychological factors, Semantics, Prosodic analysis (Linguistics), Auditory perception testing, Interference (Sound), Noise |
| Abstract: | Older adults process emotional speech differently than young adults, relying less on prosody (tone) relative to semantics (words). This study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these age-related differences via an emotional speech-in-noise test. A sample of 51 young and 47 older adults rated spoken sentences with emotional content on both prosody and semantics, presented on the background of wideband speech-spectrum noise (sensory interference) or on the background of multi-talker babble (sensory/cognitive interference). The presence of wideband noise eliminated age-related differences in semantics but not in prosody when processing emotional speech. Conversely, the presence of babble resulted in the elimination of age-related differences across all measures. The results suggest that both sensory and cognitive-linguistic factors contribute to age-related changes in emotional speech processing. Because real world conditions typically involve noisy background, our results highlight the importance of testing under such conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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