Abstract
In everyday communication, prosody (i.e., the tone and manner of speaking) conveys primary information about a talker’s intended emotion. Across the lifespan, emotional prosody identification shows age effects (i.e., development in children and aging in adults) in listeners with normal acoustic hearing as well as in listeners with cochlear implants. Cognitive resources are likely harnessed in the process of mapping acoustic cues to the correct emotion, particularly when the acoustic cues to prosody are degraded as in cochlear implants. We are investigating the dual effects of age and cognition on identification of emotional prosody by school-age child and adult participants with normal hearing or cochlear implants. In school-age children with normal hearing, we observe improved performance with age. In children with cochlear implants, hearing age (years of experience with the device, also correlated with chronological age) is also a significant predictor, along with an additional, interactive effect of nonverbal cognition. In adults with normal hearing, we observe negative effects of age together with a positive effect of working memory for both clean and degraded (cochlear implant simulated) speech. These findings have implications for the processes underlying emotion perception across the lifespan in individuals with normal hearing and with cochlear implants.
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