Older adults' emotion recognition: No auditory-visual benefit for less clear expressions.

ABSTRACT: The ability to recognise emotion from faces or voices appears to decline with advancing age. However, some studies have shown that emotion recognition of auditory-visual (AV) expressions is largely unaffected by age, i.e., older adults get a larger benefit from AV presentation than younger adults resulting in similar AV recognition levels. An issue with these studies is that they used well-recognised emotional expressions that are unlikely to generalise to real-life settings. To examine if an AV emotion recognition benefit generalizes across well and less well recognised stimuli, we conducted an emotion recognition study using expressions that had clear or unclear emotion information for both modalities, or clear visual, but unclear auditory information. Older (n = 30) and younger (n = 30)

SUBMITTER: Simonetti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803091 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature