Abstract
Efficient navigation of our social world depends on the generation interpretation and combination of social signals within different sensory systems However the influence of healthy adult aging on multisensory integration of emotional stimuli remains poorly explored This article comprises 2 studies that directly address issues of age differences on cross modal emotional matching and explicit identification The first study compared 25 younger adults (19-40 years) and 25 older adults (60-80 years) on their ability to match cross modal congruent and incongruent emotional stimuli The second study looked at performance of 20 younger (19-40) and 20 older adults (60-80) on explicit emotion identification when information was presented congruently in faces and voices or only in faces or in voices In Study 1 older adults performed as well as younger adults on tasks in which congruent auditory and visual emotional information were presented concurrently but there were age related differences in matching incongruent cross modal information Results from Study 2 indicated that though older adults were impaired at identifying emotions from 1 modality (faces or voices alone) they benefited from congruent multisensory information as age differences were eliminated The findings are discussed in relation to social emotional and cognitive changes with age.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | - |
| Pages (from-to) | 779-787 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Psychology and Aging |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2010 |
Keywords
- aging
- emotion
- perception
- multisensory
- integration
- multisensory integration
- audiovisual integration
- older-adults
- recognition
- prosody
- voice
- face
- expressions
- attention
- cognition
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Effects of Age on Cross-Modal Emotion Perception. / Hunter, Edyta Monika; Phillips, Louise H.; MacPherson, Sarah E.
In: Psychology and Aging, Vol. 25, No. 4, -, 12.2010, p. 779-787.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AB - Efficient navigation of our social world depends on the generation interpretation and combination of social signals within different sensory systems However the influence of healthy adult aging on multisensory integration of emotional stimuli remains poorly explored This article comprises 2 studies that directly address issues of age differences on cross modal emotional matching and explicit identification The first study compared 25 younger adults (19-40 years) and 25 older adults (60-80 years) on their ability to match cross modal congruent and incongruent emotional stimuli The second study looked at performance of 20 younger (19-40) and 20 older adults (60-80) on explicit emotion identification when information was presented congruently in faces and voices or only in faces or in voices In Study 1 older adults performed as well as younger adults on tasks in which congruent auditory and visual emotional information were presented concurrently but there were age related differences in matching incongruent cross modal information Results from Study 2 indicated that though older adults were impaired at identifying emotions from 1 modality (faces or voices alone) they benefited from congruent multisensory information as age differences were eliminated The findings are discussed in relation to social emotional and cognitive changes with age.
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