The Role of Emotional Information in Verbal Understandingin Persian Older Adults

Emotion plays an important role in the daily life of humans from birth to death. In the cognitive social theories it suggests that emotion regulating and understanding ability increases in aging, because of optimal increase of positive state and increasing skill in understanding the emotional cues of word meanings. The purpose of this article is the study of how is understood emotion in older adults? Do the emotions convey through the lexical meanings of quoted sentences or emotional prosody? Therefore understanding of the basic emotions including anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and neutral situation through emotional prosody study in old age(up 65 years old), young and middle age. The aim is that how emotional lexical content without prosody is understood and how is the interaction of these two modes. Based on the observations of this research, the elderly use the meanings of the emotional content for understanding of sentences, instead of emotional prosody. Unlike old ages, young and mid old ages understand emotional sentences through emotional prosody and the meanings of emotional content is in second priority.