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A sound effect: E xploration of the distinctiveness advantage in voice recognition
Author(s) -
Stevenage Sarah V.,
Neil Greg J.,
Parsons Beth,
Humphreys Abi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3424
Subject(s) - optimal distinctiveness theory , psychology , active listening , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , matching (statistics) , nonsense , point (geometry) , speech recognition , face (sociological concept) , communication , social psychology , linguistics , computer science , biochemistry , statistics , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , management , philosophy , economics , gene
Summary Two experiments are presented, which explore the presence of a distinctiveness advantage when recognising unfamiliar voices. In Experiment 1, distinctive voices were recognised significantly better, and with greater confidence, in a sequential same/different matching task compared with typical voices. These effects were replicated and extended in Experiment 2, as distinctive voices were recognised better even under challenging listening conditions imposed by nonsense sentences and temporal reversal. Taken together, the results aligned well with similar results when processing faces, and provided a useful point of comparison between voice and face processing.