A study of the collapse of integration between pitch and temporal information on by aging

老年人往往不能感知或辨别语音，主要是由于听觉能力的下降。本研究的目的是探讨音高知觉和时间知觉随年龄增长的变化以及它们之间的整合过程。1.在1997年，我们分别对青年人和老年人的听觉tau和kappa效应进行了研究，并对研究结果进行了比较。从老年受试者获得的数据不足以得出任何结论，因为在老年人中进行这类实验存在各种困难。2.对说话者情绪的准确识别能力下降是影响老年人灵活交际的原因之一。为了研究说话者的情绪是如何通过声音识别的，我们进行了一些实验，使用的是年轻的成年人。实验结果表明，被试对除恐惧外的其他情绪都有较高的识别率。

Aged people often fail to perceive or discriminate speech sounds, mainly by the deterioration of audible ability. The purposes of this research were to investigate how the pitch perception and the temporal perception change by aging and how the integration processes between them collapse.1.In 1997, auditory tau and kappa effects were examined using the young adult and aged subjects, and the results were compared between the them. The data obtained from aged subjects were not enough to draw any conclusion because there were various diffecult problems to carry out these kinds of experiments for aged people. The experiments will be continued.2.One of the reasons that prevent aged people from flexible communication is that the deterioration in the recognition of the talker's emotion accurately. Some experiments were conducted in order to examine how a talker's emotion is recognized by voice, using young adult subjects. The results show that high identification performances were obtained in the recognition of emotions except fear.