Neural Processing of Emotional Prosody across the Adult Lifespan

Table 3

Age by sex interaction of prosody recognition.

Mean accuracy ± standard error	Young adults (18–35 yrs; )		Middle-aged adults (36–55 yrs; )		Older adults (>55 yrs; )
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
Angry	0.88 ± 0.03	0.80 ± 0.03	0.79 ± 0.03	0.77 ± 0.03	0.63 ± 0.06	0.60 ± 0.04
Fearful	0.79 ± 0.03	0.76 ± 0.03	0.76 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.04	0.80 ± 0.05	0.49 ± 0.04
Disgusted	0.68 ± 0.04	0.63 ± 0.04	0.55 ± 0.03	0.57 ± 0.04	0.30 ± 0.05	0.34 ± 0.04
Sad	0.62 ± 0.04	0.52 ± 0.04	0.63 ± 0.03	0.53 ± 0.04	0.45 ± 0.06	0.44 ± 0.04
Happy	0.97 ± 0.01	0.81 ± 0.03	0.81 ± 0.03	0.77 ± 0.03	0.72 ± 0.05	0.59 ± 0.04
Neutral	0.85 ± 0.03	0.92 ± 0.02	0.83 ± 0.03	0.86 ± 0.03	0.75 ± 0.05	0.67 ± 0.04

Notes. Stars indicate significant differences between age groups () and sex (〈〉; ). yrs = years of age.