Hearing aids largely restore affect perception to age-normal levels

Evidence

In sum, the current study shows that older hearing aid users do not generally differ from their normal-hearing peers in their perception of arousal and valence, which underlines the importance of hearing aids in the rehabilitation of affect perception. While the perception of valence seems to be independent of listening condition and individual hearing loss, wearing hearing aids matters for the interpretation of rating prosodic information related to arousal. Due to this difference between emotion dimensions, future studies on affect perception in hearing aid users should treat perception of arousal and valence separately. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1381

Categorization

• SEED: The arousal-valence dissociation in emotion perception is a potential angle: most affect-perception research collapses dimensions, but this shows they rest on distinct acoustic substrates that respond differently to intervention.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1381
• XREF: connects to: Hearing aid use restores arousal perception but shifts cue weighting — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348; Wearing a hearing aid normalizes arousal ratings across differing degrees of hearing loss.