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Vocal emotion perception is an important part of speech communication and social interaction. Although older adults with normal audiograms are known to be less accurate at identifying vocal emotion compared to younger adults, little is known about how older adults with hearing loss perceive vocal emotion or whether hearing aids improve the perception of emotional speech. In the main experiment, older hearing aid users were presented with sentences spoken in seven emotion conditions, with and without their own hearing aids. Listeners reported the words that they heard as well as the emotion portrayed in each sentence. The use of hearing aids improved word-recognition accuracy in quiet from 38.1% (unaided) to 65.1% (aided) but did not significantly change emotion-identification accuracy (36.0% unaided, 41.8% aided). In a follow-up experiment, normal-hearing young listeners were tested on the same stimuli. Normal-hearing younger listeners and older listeners with hearing loss showed similar patterns in how emotion affected word-recognition performance but different patterns in how emotion affected emotion-identification performance. In contrast to the present findings, previous studies did not find age-related differences between younger and older normal-hearing listeners in how emotion affected emotion-identification performance. These findings suggest that there are changes to emotion identification caused by hearing loss that are beyond those that can be attributed to normal aging, and that hearing aids do not compensate for these changes.

Hearing Aids Benefit Recognition of Words in Emotional Speech but Not Emotion Identification