Adult-level vocal emotion recognition performance is reached between 14 and 15 years of age, with a non-linear trajectory of faster childhood improvement followed by a late-adolescent plateau¶
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q3 i? Model-predicted performance reaches the adults' mean level between age 14 and 15, and the developmental trajectory is non-linear with faster improvement in childhood and a plateau in late adolescence. → Grosbras 2018
Evidence¶
Grosbras 2018¶
Grosbras, M.-H., Ross, P. D. & Belin, P. (2018). Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence. Scientific Reports 8, 14791. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32868-3
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Model-predicted percent-correct values from the mixed-model logistic regression fitted to the 225 participants aged 5–17, compared with the 30 adults' mean of 86.7% correct. The article prints no effect size for this milestone, so impact is null.
"Based on the values predicted by the model at different ages (converted from logit to percent correct responses), the adults’ mean level of performance is reached between age 14 and 15."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- The ability to identify basic emotions from non-linguistic vocal bursts improves significantly with age from 5 to 17 years — a broader claim this one bears on
- Children's average vocal emotion recognition performance is significantly below the adult group's average — related
- Testing procedure (individual computer with headphones vs small-group loudspeaker with paper response) does not affect vocal emotion recognition performance or the developmental trajectory — related
- Happiness is the easiest vocal emotion to recognize and anger the hardest, with anger and fear showing the greatest age-related improvement — related
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Adult-level vocal emotion recognition performance is reached between 14 and 15 years of age, with a non-linear trajectory of faster childhood improvement followed by a late-adolescent plateau |
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Adult-level vocal emotion recognition performance is reached between 14 and 15 years of age, with a non-linear trajectory of faster childhood improvement followed by a late-adolescent plateau |
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