Facial and Auditory Affect Recognition in Senile Geriatrics, the Normal Elderly and Young Adults

Allen, Rhonda; Brosgole, Leonard

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“…Studies have shown that older individuals process negative stimuli with less saliency and=or accuracy than positive stimuli compared to younger individuals (Allen & Brosgole, 1993;Billings, Harrison, & Alden, 1993;Carstensen, Gottman, & Levenson, 1995;Dougherty, Abe, & Izard, 1996;Gross et al, 1997;McDowell et al, 1994;Moreno et al, 1993;Mroczek & Kolarz, 1998). Overall, these valence findings are consistent with theories suggesting that emotional experience is predominantly positive in later life (see Dougherty et al, 1996;cf.…”

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Changes in Posed Facial Expression of Emotion Across the Adult Life Span

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Yecker

Brickman

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Experimental Aging Research

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The purpose of this study was to examine changes in the facial expression of emotion across the adult life span. Two positive and two negative emotional expressions were posed by 30 young (21 to 39 years), 30 middle-aged (40 to 59 years), and 30 older (60 to 81 years) healthy, right-handed women. Photographs of the four emotional expressions were rated by independent judges for intensity, accuracy, and confidence. Special features of this study were the use of a neutral face as a nonemotional control, as well as careful cognitive and affective screening procedures for posers and judges. Overall, the expressions of older posers were rated as significantly less accurate and with significantly less confidence than those of younger posers. Although the neutral faces of older posers were rated as significantly more intense than those of younger posers, there were no significant age-related intensity differences for positive and negative emotions. The results are discussed in terms of theoretical models of aging.

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Changes in Posed Facial Expression of Emotion Across the Adult Life Span

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Yecker

Brickman

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Experimental Aging Research

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“…Further research could perhaps include samples of middle-aged adults as in Brosgole et al's early labelling studies (Allen & Brosgole, 1993;Brosgole & Weisman, 1995), to map the gradual decline of these functions between younger and older adults, whilst examining discrimination judgements and responses to non-emotional prosody. One interpretation of our data is that older adults may have a generic difficulty deriving overall communicative intent from the prosodic ensemble.…”

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Is Age-related Decline in Vocal Emotion Identification an Artefact of Labelling Cognitions?

Mitchell

Kingston²

2011

IJPS

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Evidence has emerged that older adults find it more difficult to interpret prosodic emotions than younger adults. However, typical tasks involve labelling-related cognitions over and above emotion perception per se. Accordingly, we aimed to determine if age-related difficulty in prosodic emotion labelling extended to discrimination, which is more closely related to emotion perception per se. For this purpose, 45 younger adults (mean age 20 years, 2 males/43 females) and 45 older adults (mean age 71 years, 16 males/29 females) were recruited. In one task, participants heard pairs of sentences and were asked to indicate whether they were spoken with the same emotional intonational or not. In a second task, they heard sentences with intonation conveying a question or statement, and indicated whether the non-emotional intonation patterns matched or not. Older adults' performance consistently fell below that of younger adults. Older adults may have a generic prosodic decoding deficit, regardless of the end function of the prosody.

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“…In Brosgole and Weisman's study participants were presented with pre-recorded sentences and asked to indicate their response in a forced choice response paradigm, pointing to the drawing of the face displaying the corresponding 4 Decoding emotional prosody… emotion in one condition, and giving a verbal forced-choice response in the labeling condition. The early report from Allen and Brosgole (1993) highlighted evidence for agerelated decline in emotional AND linguistic prosodic processing. In this study participants judged emotional prosody using the same paradigm as Brosgole and Weisman (1995).…”

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Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon?

Mitchell

2007

Cognition & Emotion

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Facial and Auditory Affect Recognition in Senile Geriatrics, the Normal Elderly and Young Adults

Cited by 46 publications

References 8 publications

Changes in Posed Facial Expression of Emotion Across the Adult Life Span

Changes in Posed Facial Expression of Emotion Across the Adult Life Span

Is Age-related Decline in Vocal Emotion Identification an Artefact of Labelling Cognitions?

Age-related decline in the ability to decode emotional prosody: Primary or secondary phenomenon?

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