Assessing the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing

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dc.authoridParlak, Mumune Merve/0000-0002-1603-2360
dc.authoridDuzenli Ozturk, Seren/0000-0003-3630-173X
dc.authoridYILDIRIM, CANSU/0000-0002-9957-3006
dc.contributor.authorYildirim, Cansu
dc.contributor.authorDuzenli-Ozturk, Seren
dc.contributor.authorParlak, Muemuene Merve
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-20T09:50:48Z
dc.date.available2025-03-20T09:50:48Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractBackground Emotional prosody is the reflection of emotion types such as happiness, sadness, fear and anger in the speaker's tone of voice. Accurately perceiving, interpreting and expressing emotional prosody is an inseparable part of successful communication and social interaction. There are few studies on emotional prosody, which is crucial for communication, and the results of these studies have inconsistent information regarding age and gender. Aims The primary aim of this study is to assess the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing. The other aim is to examine the effects of variables such as age, gender, language and neurocognitive capacity on the prediction of emotional prosody recognition skills. Methods and Procedures Sixty-nine participants between the ages of 18-75 were included in the study. Participants were grouped as the young group aged 18-35 (n = 26), the middle-aged group aged 36-55 (n = 24) and the elderly group aged 56-75 (n = 19). Perceptual emotional prosody test, motor response time test, and neuropsychological test batteries were administered to the participants. Participants were asked to recognise the emotion in the sentences played on the computer. Natural (neutral, containing neither positive nor negative emotion), happy, angry, surprised and panic emotions were evaluated with sentences composed of pseudoword stimuli. Results and Outcomes It was observed that the elderly group performed worse in recognising angry, panic, natural and happy emotions and in total recognition, which gives the correct recognition performance in recognition of all emotions. There was no age-related difference in recognition of the emotion of surprise. The women were more successful in recognising angry, panic, happy and total emotions compared to men. Age and Motor Reaction Time Test scores were found to be significant predictors in the emotional response time regression model. Age, language, attention and gender variables were found to have a significant effect on the regression model created for the success of total recognition of emotions (p < 0.05). Conclusions and Implications This was a novel study in which emotional prosody was assessed in the elderly by eliminating lexical-semantic cues related to emotional prosody and associating emotional prosody results with neuropsychiatric tests. All our findings revealed the importance of age for the perception of emotional prosody. In addition, the effects of cognitive functions such as attention, which decline with age, were found to be important. Therefore, it should not be forgotten that many factors contribute to the success of recognising emotional prosody correctly. In this context, clinicians should consider variables such as cognitive health and education when assessing the perception of emotional prosody in elderly individuals.
dc.description.sponsorshipScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBIdot;TAK)
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to thank The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUB & Idot;TAK) for the open access support.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1460-6984.13097
dc.identifier.endpage2515
dc.identifier.issn1368-2822
dc.identifier.issn1460-6984
dc.identifier.issue6
dc.identifier.pmid39137279
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85201098680
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage2497
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.13097
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/2322
dc.identifier.volume59
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001290149300001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250319
dc.subjectelderly individuals
dc.subjectemotional prosody perception
dc.subjecthealthy ageing
dc.subjectneuropsychological evaluation
dc.subjectrecognising emotional prosody
dc.titleAssessing the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing
dc.typeArticle

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