Emotional prosody recognition enhances and progressively complexifies from childhood to adolescence

Article Article scientifique Article Emotional prosody recognition enhances and progressively complexifies from childhood to adolescence eng 2022-10-13 2022-10-13 author Filippa Manuela 0000-0002-1310-8008 890536 author Lima Soliz Doris Liliana 775083 author Grandjean Alicia 762314 author Labbe Rodriguez Carolina 630086 author Coll Sélim Yahia 0000-0002-1156-0391 643661 author Gentaz Edouard 0000-0003-0574-5557 123382 author Grandjean Didier Maurice 502006 10.1038/s41598-022-21554-0 36229474 2045-2322 PMC9561714 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21554-0 <p>Emotional prosody results from the dynamic variation of language’s acoustic non-verbal aspects that allow people to convey and recognize emotions. The goal of this paper is to understand how this recognition develops from childhood to adolescence. We also aim to investigate how the ability to perceive multiple emotions in the voice matures over time. We tested 133 children and adolescents, aged between 6 and 17 years old, exposed to 4 kinds of linguistically meaningless emotional (anger, fear, happiness, and sadness) and neutral stimuli. Participants were asked to judge the type and intensity of perceived emotion on continuous scales, without a forced choice task. As predicted, a general linear mixed model analysis revealed a significant interaction effect between age and emotion. The ability to recognize emotions significantly increased with age for both emotional and neutral vocalizations. Girls recognized anger better than boys, who instead confused fear with neutral prosody more than girls. Across all ages, only marginally significant differences were found between anger, happiness, and neutral compared to sadness, which was more difficult to recognize. Finally, as age increased, participants were significantly more likely to attribute multiple emotions to emotional prosody, showing that the representation of emotional content becomes increasingly complex. The ability to identify basic emotions in prosody from linguistically meaningless stimuli develops from childhood to adolescence. Interestingly, this maturation was not only evidenced in the accuracy of emotion detection, but also in a complexification of emotion attribution in prosody.</p> Dewey 150 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1241 Affective sciences 594 Neuroscience de l'émotion et dynamiques affectives (NEAD) Scientific reports 12 1 ae707dd9-4542-453c-9129-d87b5c287607 Article (Published version) Public Article-scientifique-from-crossref.pdf 1245026 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 openAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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