Impact of Aging on Emotional Prosody Recognition.pdf

1、The present study used a cross-splicing method to explore whether and how aging affects the recognition of emotional speeches. Two experiments were set to better understand this issue. A behavioral experiment was designe

2、d to quest whether aging has a negative influence on the process of emotional prosody recognition. Thirty elderly participants (ages 50-60) were invited into the experiment as the elder-group and thirty younger participa

3、nts (ages 18-28) as the younger-group. The results indicated that elderly participants' reaction time was delayed in the emotion category task compared to young participants. The second experiment used a cross-splicing m

4、ethod to explore how aging affects the recognition of emotional prosodies (e.g., angry or happy) as they unfold in time. To better understand the time course of the processing,event-related potentials (ERPs) obtained fro

5、m 9 elderly (ages 50-60) and 10 younger participants (ages 19-24) in a probe verification task were analyzed.The results confirmed that categorization of emotional prosodies can be detected rapidly in early negativity. M