Several neuroimaging studies of cognitive ageing have found that age-related deficits in
working memory (WM) and episodic memory abilities are related to changes in prefrontal …

Prosodic aspects of speech such as pitch, duration and amplitude constitute nonverbal cues
that supplement or modify the meaning of the spoken word, to provide valuable clues as to a …

Experimental studies indicate that recognition of emotions, particularly negative emotions,
decreases with age. However, there is no consensus at which age the decrease in emotion …

Unlike the aphasic syndromes, the organization of affective prosody in brain has remained
controversial because affective-prosodic deficits may occur after left or right brain damage …

To successfully infer a speaker's emotional state, diverse sources of emotional information
need to be decoded. The present study explored to what extent emotional speech …

The recognition of nonverbal emotional signals and the integration of multimodal emotional
information are essential for successful social communication among humans of any age …

Objectives: Despite excellent performance in speech recognition in quiet, most cochlear
implant users have great difficulty with speech recognition in noise, music perception …

Impairments in the ability of elderly people to comprehend affective prosody have been
reported, but little is known about the relationship between affective prosodic …

Emotion is conveyed in speech by semantic content (what is said) and by prosody (how it is
said). Prior research suggests that older adults benefit from linguistic prosody when …

Young and old adults' ability to recognize emotions from vocal expressions and music
performances was compared. The stimuli consisted of (a) acted speech (anger, disgust, fear …