Psychophysiological and subjective indices of emotion as a function of age and gender

Burriss, Louisa; Powell, D. A.; White, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/02699930600562235

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“…This means that it is easier to recognize the physiological emotional reactions of young people than those of older people on the axis of Valence or Dominance. This finding can be explained and supported by several previous studies, which demonstrate that the magnitude of physiological changes related to emotions are much smaller for elderly subjects than for young subjects [15,16]. Moreover, the present study also explores the effect of gender and age combined on the recognition rates.…”

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“…The studies on brain activities demonstrated that females react more to negative pictures whereas male have greater activities when watching erotic pictures [13,14]. Further, several studies indicate that old subjects have lower physiological responses in terms of electromyography, skin conductance, heart rate changes and finger temperature [15,16]. However, fewer investigations are conducted on the effect of gender and age on the psychophysiological emotion classification [17,18,19].…”

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Individual Emotion Recognition and Subgroup Analysis From Psychophysiological Signals

Zhang¹,

Traue²,

Hazer-Rau³

2018

SIPIJ

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This study involves intra-and inter-individual emotion classifications from psychophysiological signals and subgroup analysis on the influence of gender and age and their interaction on the emotion recognition. Individual classifications are conducted using a selection of feature optimization, classification and evaluation approaches. The subgroup analysis is based on the inter-individual classification. Emotion elicitation is conducted using standardized pictures in the Valence-Arousal-Dominance dimensions and affective states are classified into five different category classes. Advantageous intra-individual rates are obtained via multi-channel classification and the respiration best contributes to the recognition. High interindividual variances are obtained showing large variability in physiological responses between the subjects. Classification rates are significantly higher for women than for men for the 3-category-class of Valence. Compared to old subjects, young subjects have significantly higher rates for the 3-category-class and 2-category-class of Dominance. Moreover, young men's classification performed the best among the other subgroups for the 5-category-class of Valence/Arousal.

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Section: Introduction and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Individual Emotion Recognition and Subgroup Analysis From Psychophysiological Signals

Zhang¹,

Traue²,

Hazer-Rau³

2018

SIPIJ

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“…Past studies examining age-related differences in facial expressiveness have found that young and older adults express similar patterns of facial responding to visual stimuli such as emotional scenes, objects or faces (Reminger et al, 2000; Smith et al, 2005; Bailey et al, 2009). However, older adults compared to younger adults may exhibit diminished reactivity in facial expressiveness (Smith et al, 2005; Burriss et al, 2007). The reduction of facial expressiveness in the elderly has been thought to be a possible consequence of general physiological losses in the nervous system.…”

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confidence: 99%

Age-related differences in affective responses to and memory for emotions conveyed by music: a cross-sectional study

Vieillard

Gilet

2013

Front. Psychol.

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There is mounting evidence that aging is associated with the maintenance of positive affect and the decrease of negative affect to ensure emotion regulation goals. Previous empirical studies have primarily focused on a visual or autobiographical form of emotion communication. To date, little investigation has been done on musical emotions. The few studies that have addressed aging and emotions in music were mainly interested in emotion recognition, thus leaving unexplored the question of how aging may influence emotional responses to and memory for emotions conveyed by music. In the present study, eighteen older (60–84 years) and eighteen younger (19–24 years) listeners were asked to evaluate the strength of their experienced emotion on happy, peaceful, sad, and scary musical excerpts (Vieillard et al., 2008) while facial muscle activity was recorded. Participants then performed an incidental recognition task followed by a task in which they judged to what extent they experienced happiness, peacefulness, sadness, and fear when listening to music. Compared to younger adults, older adults (a) reported a stronger emotional reactivity for happiness than other emotion categories, (b) showed an increased zygomatic activity for scary stimuli, (c) were more likely to falsely recognize happy music, and (d) showed a decrease in their responsiveness to sad and scary music. These results are in line with previous findings and extend them to emotion experience and memory recognition, corroborating the view of age-related changes in emotional responses to music in a positive direction away from negativity.

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“…Towards to a more integrative view of the neuronal mechanisms involved in emotional processing, physiological recordings of the autonomic nervous system due to emotional stimuli should also be considered. Therefore, another study used IAPS pictures during heart rate, skin conductance and electromyographic (EMG) recordings [27]. The participants were divided into three groups (old, middle-aged and young) according to their age.…”

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Description and future trends of ICT solutions offered towards independent living

Frantzidιs

Bamidis

2009

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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Due to the increasing elderly population, healthcare systems able to promote independent living are regarded as an emerging market. Despite the significant advances aiming to support senior citizens, several issues have to be addressed in order to enable older people to live independently and to form living cells of our society. Aiming to contribute to the research of elderly care, this paper reports the open issues that should be taken into consideration in order to provide a technological solution towards Ambient Assistive Living (AAL). After reviewing the most prominent European funded projects, it presents an example of integrated elderly healthcare platform and finally attempts to highlight the future trends which should be employed in order to face with success the social and financial phenomenon of ageing population.

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Psychophysiological and subjective indices of emotion as a function of age and gender

Cited by 33 publications

References 37 publications

Individual Emotion Recognition and Subgroup Analysis From Psychophysiological Signals

Individual Emotion Recognition and Subgroup Analysis From Psychophysiological Signals

Age-related differences in affective responses to and memory for emotions conveyed by music: a cross-sectional study

Description and future trends of ICT solutions offered towards independent living

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