THE RELATIONSHIPS OF VOICE PROSODY MEASURES TO COGNITIVE CHANGES OVER 10 YEARS
Elizabeth Mahon, Margie Lachman · 2023
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The voice may carry early signs of a slowing mind, in tiny measures of pitch roughness and strength. Elizabeth Mahon and Margie Lachman test that idea over a ten-year span in this 2023 study. They ask whether voice traits measured at a first visit can forecast memory and thinking changes a decade later in middle-aged and older adults.
The data come from a Boston group inside a national midlife study, with voices taken from recordings of interviews apart from the thinking tests themselves. After adjusting for age, schooling, and health, rougher pitch and a weaker pulse at baseline foretold steeper memory decline over ten years. Higher pitch and weaker pulse also tracked with slowing on a reaction time task. The authors suggest voice checks could one day flag risk cheaply and early.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elizabeth Mahon, Margie Lachman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |