How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech

• Published in: Language and speech Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 592 - 605
• Main Authors: Wang, Yingyang, Xu, Min, Shao, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2025; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Aging (Individuals); Aging - psychology; Case-Control Studies; Emotions; Female; Hearing loss; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Older Adults; Older people; Phonetics; Presbycusis - psychology; Prosody; Recognition; Recognition, Psychology; Speech Acoustics; Speech Perception; Whispering; Young Adult; Young adults; Emotion identification; aging; hearing loss; whispering

Whispering is a common adverse hearing condition. However, it is still unclear whether older adults have more difficulty perceiving emotions in whispered speech, and whether hearing loss contributes to these difficulties. To fill this research gap, we compared emotional prosody perception under phon...