@article{57464f97bfde4b5787445003c0c7df39,
title = "Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background",
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.",
keywords = "aging, emotions, noise, sensory-cognitive interactions, Speech processing",
author = "Dor, {Yehuda I.} and Daniel Algom and Vered Shakuf and Ben-David, {Boaz M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1080/02699931.2024.2351960",
language = "אנגלית",
journal = "Cognition and Emotion",
issn = "0269-9931",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
}