The Specificity of Age-Related Decline in Interpretation of Emotion Cues From Prosody

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 406-414

  Mitchell, Rachel L C ^a   Kingston, Rachel A ^b   Barbosa Bouças, Sofia L ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Prosody; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CUES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959311353     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021861     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Allen R., Brosgole L. Facial and auditory affect recognition in senile geriatrics, the normal elderly and young adults. International Journal of Neuroscience 1993, 68:33-42. doi: 10.3109/00207459308994257.
2. Beck A.T., Steer R.A. Beck Depression Inventory manual 1987, Harcourt Assessment, San Antonio, TX.
3. Boraston Z., Blakemore S.J., Chilvers R., Skuse D. Impaired sadness recognition is linked to social interaction deficit in autism. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:1501-1510. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.11.010.
4. Brosgole L., Weisman J. Mood recognition across the ages. International Journal of Neuroscience 1995, 82:169-189. doi: 10.3109/00207459508999800.
5. Bucks R.S., Garner M., Tarrant L., Bradley B.P., Mogg K. Interpretation of emotionally ambiguous faces in older adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2008, 63:P337-343.
6. Buttner A.C. Questions versus statements: Challenging an assumption about semantic illusions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2007, 60:779-789. doi: 10.1080/17470210701228744.
7. Carstensen L.L., Mikels J.A., Mather M. Aging and the intersection of cognition, motivation, and Emotion. Handbook of the psychology of aging 2006, 343-362. Academic Press Inc., London, doi: 10.1016/B978-012101264-9/50018-5. J.E. Birren, K.W. Schaie (Eds.).
8. Carstensen L.L., Turk-Charles S. The salience of emotion across the adult life span. Psychology and Aging 1994, 9:259-264. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.9.2.259.
9. Charles S.T., Carstensen L.L. A life span view of emotional functioning in adulthood and old age. Advances in Cell Ageing and Gerontology Series 2004, 15:133-162.
10. Cohen J. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement 1960, 20:37-46. doi: 10.1177/001316446002000104.
11. Crawford J.R., Deary I.J., Starr J., Whalley L.J. The NART as an index of prior intellectual functioning: A retrospective validity study covering a 66-year interval. Psychological Medicine 2001, 31:451-458. doi: 10.1017/S0033291701003634.
12. Cruse D.A. Meaning in language: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
13. Cutilli C.C. Teaching the geriatric patient. Making the most of "cognitive resources" and "gains." Orthopaedic Nursing 2008, 27:195-198. doi: 10.1097/01.NOR.0000320550.22396.77.
14. Fecteau S., Armony J.L., Joanette Y., Belin P. Judgment of emotional nonlinguistic vocalizations: Age-related differences. Applied Neuropsychology 2005, 12:40-48. doi: 10.1207/s15324826an1201_7.
15. French N.A., Steinberg J.C. Factors governing the intelligibility of speech sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1947, 19:90-119. doi: 10.1121/1.1916407.
16. Friend M., Farrar M.J. A comparison of content-masking procedures for obtaining judgments of discrete affective states. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1994, 96:1283-1290. doi: 10.1121/1.410276.
17. Frisina R.D., Walton J.P. Age-related structural and functional changes in the cochlear nucleus. Hearing Research, 216-217 2006, 216-223. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.02.003.
18. Grunwald I.S., Borod J.C., Obler L.K., Erhan H.M., Pick L.H., Welkowitz J., Whalen J. The effects of age and gender on the perception of lexical emotion. Applied Neuropsychology 1999, 6:226-238. doi: 10.1207/s15324826an0604_5.
19. Isaacowitz D.M., Allard E.S., Murphy N.A., Schlangel M. The time course of age-related preferences toward positive and negative stimuli. Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2009, 64:188-192. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbn036.
20. Izard C., Fine S., Schultz D., Mostow A., Ackerman B., Youngstrom E. Emotion knowledge as a predictor of social behavior and academic competence in children at risk. Psychological Science 2001, 12:18-23. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00304.
21. Jones S., Nyberg L., Sandblom J., Stigsdotter Neely A., Ingvar M., Magnus Petersson K., Backman L. Cognitive and neural plasticity in aging: General and task-specific limitations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2006, 30:864-871. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.06.012.
22. Kiss I., Ennis T. Age-related decline in perception of prosodic affect. Applied Neuropsychology 2001, 8:251-254.
23. Kjelgaard M.M., Titone D.A., Wingfield A. The influence of prosodic structure on the interpretation of temporary syntactic ambiguity by young and elderly listeners. Experimental Aging Research 1999, 25:187-207. doi: 10.1080/036107399243986.
24. Krampe R.T. Aging, expertise and fine motor movement. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2002, 26:769-776. doi: 10.1016/S0149-7634(02)00064-7.
25. Larkey L.S. Reiterant speech: An acoustic and perceptual validation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1983, 73:1337-1345. doi: 10.1121/1.389237.
26. Leyman L., De Raedt R., Schacht R., Koster E.H. Attentional biases for angry faces in unipolar depression. Psychological Medicine 2007, 37:393-402. doi: 10.1017/S003329170600910X.
27. Licklider J.C.R., Miller G.A. The perception of speech. Handbook of experimental psychology 1951, 1040-1074. Wiley, New York. S.S. Stevens (Ed.).
28. Lieberman P. Intonation, perception and language 1967, MIT Press, Cambridge.
29. Lunney G.H. Using analysis of variance with a dichotomous dependent variable: An empirical study. Journal of Educational Measurement 1970, 7:263-269. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1970.tb00727.x.
30. MacPherson S.E., Phillips L.H., Della Sala S. Age, executive function, and social decision making: A dorsolateral prefrontal theory of cognitive aging. Psychology and Aging 2002, 17:598-609. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.4.598.
31. Malatesta C.Z., Izard C.E., Culver C., Nicolich M. Emotion communication skills in young, middle-aged, and older women. Psychology and Aging 1987, 2:193-203. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.2.2.193.
32. Mather M., Carstensen L.L. Aging and motivated cognition: The positivity effect in attention and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2005, 9:496-502. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.005.
33. Mitchell R. Does incongruent lexico-semantic and prosodic information cause discernable cognitive conflict?. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 2006, 6:298-305.
34. Mitchell R. Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon?. Cognition and Emotion 2007, 21:1435-1454.
35. Nelson H.E. National Adult Reading test (NART): Test Manual 1982, NFER-Nelson, Windsor.
36. Orbelo D.M., Grim M.A., Talbott R.E., Ross E.D. Impaired comprehension of affective prosody in elderly subjects is not predicted by age-related hearing loss or age-related cognitive decline. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2005, 18:25-32. doi: 10.1177/0891988704272214.
37. Orbelo D.M., Testa J.A., Ross E.D. Age-related impairments in comprehending affective prosody with comparison to brain-damaged subjects. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2003, 16:44-52. doi: 10.1177/0891988702250565.
38. Orgeta V., Phillips L.H. Effects of age and emotional intensity on the recognition of facial emotion. Experimental Aging Research 2008, 34:63-79. doi: 10.1080/03610730701762047.
39. Paulmann S., Pell M.D., Kotz S.A. How aging affects the recognition of emotional speech. Brain and Language 2007, 104:262-269. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.002.
40. Phillips L.H., Allen R. Adult aging and the perceived intensity of emotions in faces and stories. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2004, 16:190-199.
41. Raithel V., Hielscher-Fastabend M. Emotional and linguistic perception of prosody. Reception of prosody. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 2004, 56:7-13. doi: 10.1159/000075324.
42. Rickham P.P. Human experimentation: Code of ethics of the World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki. British Medical Journal 1964, 5402:177.
43. Rogers P.L., Scherer K.R., Rosenthal R. Content filtering human speech: A simple electronic system. Behavior Research Methods and Instruments 1971, 3:16-18.
44. Ruffman T., Henry J.D., Livingstone V., Phillips L.H. A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: Implications for neuropsychological models of aging. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2008, 32:863-881.
45. Russell J.A., Carroll J.M. On the bipolarity of positive and negative affect. Psychology Bulletin 1999, 125:3-30. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.125.1.3.
46. Ruys K.I., Stapel D.A. Emotion elicitor or emotion messenger? Subliminal priming reveals two faces of facial expressions. Psychological Science 2008, 19:593-600. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02128.x.
47. Scherer K.R. Randomized splicing: A note on a simple technique for masking speech content. Journal of Experimental Research on Personality 1971, 5:155-159.
48. Scherer K.R., Feldstein S., Bond R.N., Rosenthal R. Vocal cues to deception: A comparative channel approach. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1985, 14:409-425. doi: 10.1007/BF01067884.
49. Schneider B.A., Daneman M., Pichora-Fuller M.K. Listening in aging adults: From discourse comprehension to psychoacoustics. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 2002, 56:139-152. doi: 10.1037/h0087392.
50. Scott S.K., Blank C.C., Rosen S., Wise R.J. Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left temporal lobe. Brain 2000, 123(Pt 12):2400-2406.
51. Shea T.L., Sergejew A.A., Burnham D., Jones C., Egan G.F., Rossell S.L., Copolov D.L. Emotional prosodic processing in auditory hallucinations. Schizophrenia Research 2007, 90:214-220. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2006.09.021.
52. Shattuck-Hufnagel S., Turk A.E. A prosody tutorial for investigators of auditory sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1996, 25:193-247.
53. Srinivasan R.J., Massaro D.W. Perceiving prosody from the face and voice: Distinguishing statements from echoic questions in English. Language and Speech 2003, 46:1-22. doi: 10.1177/00238309030460010201.
54. Wingfield A., Lahar C.J., Stine E.A. Age and decision strategies in running memory for speech: Effects of prosody and linguistic structure. Journal of Gerontology 1989, 44:P106-113.
55. Wingfield A., Wayland S.C., Stine E.A. Adult age differences in the use of prosody for syntactic parsing and recall of spoken sentences. Journal of Gerontology 1992, 47:P350-356.
56. Wong B., Cronin-Golomb A., Neargarder S. Patterns of visual scanning as predictors of emotion identification in normal aging. Neuropsychology 2005, 19:739-749. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.19.6.739.
57. Zentner M., Grandjean D., Scherer K.R. Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement. Emotion 2008, 8:494-521. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.4.494.