Relationship Between Dynamic Pitch Sensitivity and Vocal Emotion Recognition in Different Listening Conditions in Older Listeners.
Purpose: This study examined the relationship between sensitivity to dynamic pitch (i.e., perception of intonation) and vocal emotion recognition in older adults under different listening conditions. We hypothesized that better dynamic pitch sensitivity would be positively associated with accurate r...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 8; pp. 3994 - 4013 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196185594&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 196185594 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2026 vid: 69 iid: 8 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 196185594 10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00918 ppf: 3994 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.9MB tig: atl: Relationship Between Dynamic Pitch Sensitivity and Vocal Emotion Recognition in Different Listening Conditions in Older Listeners. aug: au: Amartey, Benjamin T. Chatterjee, Monita Souza, Pamela affil: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL su: Task performance Emotions Age distribution Psychometrics Psychological tests Old age Scale analysis (Psychology) Research funding Noise Questionnaires Logistic regression analysis Musical perception Descriptive statistics Human voice Speech perception Data analysis software Confidence intervals Musical pitch sug: subj: Task performance Emotions Age distribution Psychometrics Psychological tests Old age Scale analysis (Psychology) Research funding Noise Questionnaires Logistic regression analysis Musical perception Descriptive statistics Human voice Speech perception Data analysis software Confidence intervals Musical pitch ab: Purpose: This study examined the relationship between sensitivity to dynamic pitch (i.e., perception of intonation) and vocal emotion recognition in older adults under different listening conditions. We hypothesized that better dynamic pitch sensitivity would be positively associated with accurate recognition of vocal emotions, regardless of age or listening context. Method: We conducted two related studies. In Study 1, 32 listeners (ages 55-88 years) completed a pitch direction identification task assessing dynamic pitch sensitivity and a vocal emotion recognition task in quiet. In Study 2, 21 listeners (ages 56-88 years) from Study 1 completed the emotion recognition task in babble maskers presented from multiple locations around the listener at two signal-to-noise ratios. Results: In Study 1, results showed a significant positive relationship between dynamic pitch sensitivity and vocal emotion recognition. Study 2 found a similar relationship between dynamic pitch sensitivity and vocal emotion recognition as was observed in Study 1; however, this relationship did not reach statistical significance. Participants' age was found to negatively predict vocal emotion accuracy across both listening conditions. Conclusions: Our findings highlight the unique contribution of dynamic pitch sensitivity to individual differences in vocal emotion recognition in older listeners. These findings replicate and extend the literature on emotional communication in aging and suggest that dynamic pitch sensitivity may be one of the mechanisms supporting accurate emotion recognition in aging. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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