The development of cross-cultural recognition of vocal emotion during childhood and adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Humans have an innate set of emotions recognised universally. However, emotion recognition also depends on socio-cultural rules. Although adults recognise vocal emotions universally, they identify emotions more accurately in their native language. We examined developmental trajectories of universal vocal emotion recognition in children. Eighty native English speakers completed a vocal emotion recognition task in their native language (English) and foreign languages (Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic) expressing anger, happiness, sadness, fear, and neutrality. Emotion recognition was compared across 8-to-10, 11-to-13-year-olds, and adults. Measures of behavioural and emotional problems were also taken. Results showed that although emotion recognition was above chance for all languages, native En

SUBMITTER: Chronaki G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002529 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature