Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task

Yingyang Wang; Min Xu; Jing Shao; Lan Wang; Nan Yan

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2023-670

Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task

Yingyang Wang, Min Xu, Jing Shao^*, Lan Wang, Nan Yan

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Abstract

Semantics and prosody are two cues for the perception of spoken emotion. In situations where cues conflict, older adults (OA) have difficulty inhibiting one channel and fo- cusing on the other. OA with hearing loss may face more challenges. In this study, we examined the effects of ag- ing and hearing loss on multi-channel emotion processing through a prosody-semantics Stroop task in three groups of participants, i.e., younger adults (YA) and OA with and without hearing loss. It was found that OA with hearing loss showed the most degraded performance in process- ing conflicting information. When information was incon- gruent in two channels, they judged emotions less accu- rately than the other two groups. Moreover, OA with hear- ing loss was the only group to show channel dominance, in that they performed lower accuracy in the prosodic channel. These findings suggest that hearing loss affects spoken emotional perception in conflict situations, inde- pendent of age-related changes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	4983-4987
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-670
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2023
Event	24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 20 Aug 2023 → 24 Aug 2023 https://interspeech2023.org/ (Conference website ) https://interspeech2023.org/programme-overview-sample/ (Conference proceedings)

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Volume	2023-August
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X
ISSN (Electronic)	1990-9772

Conference

Conference	24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	20/08/23 → 24/08/23
Internet address	https://interspeech2023.org/ (Conference website ) https://interspeech2023.org/programme-overview-sample/ (Conference proceedings)

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Software
Signal Processing
Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Modelling and Simulation

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Stroop-like task
emotion identification
hearing loss
older adults

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Wang, Y., Xu, M., Shao, J., Wang, L., & Yan, N. (2023). Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task. In Proceedings of 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023 (pp. 4983-4987). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH; Vol. 2023-August). International Speech Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-670

Wang, Yingyang ; Xu, Min ; Shao, Jing et al. / Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults : Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task. Proceedings of 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023. International Speech Communication Association, 2023. pp. 4983-4987 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Wang, Y, Xu, M, Shao, J, Wang, L & Yan, N 2023, Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task. in Proceedings of 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, vol. 2023-August, International Speech Communication Association, pp. 4983-4987, 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 20/08/23. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-670

Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task. / Wang, Yingyang; Xu, Min; Shao, Jing et al.
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Wang Y, Xu M, Shao J, Wang L, Yan N. Hearing Loss Affects Emotion Perception in Older Adults: Evidence from a Prosody-Semantics Stroop Task. In Proceedings of 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023. International Speech Communication Association. 2023. p. 4983-4987. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH). doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-670

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