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A sound effect: Exploration of the distinctiveness advantage in voice recognition

A sound effect: Exploration of the distinctiveness advantage in voice recognition
A sound effect: Exploration of the distinctiveness advantage in voice recognition
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 to 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.
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Stevenage, Sarah
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Stevenage, Sarah, Neil, Gregory, Parsons, Beth and Humphreys, Abi (2018) A sound effect: Exploration of the distinctiveness advantage in voice recognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology. (doi:10.1002/acp.3424).

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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 to 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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 June 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 July 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 421582
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/421582
ISSN: 0888-4080
PURE UUID: 75cf3d69-73ae-4706-8980-81f86218c11b
ORCID for Sarah Stevenage: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4155-2939

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Date deposited: 15 Jun 2018 16:30
Last modified: 30 Apr 2024 04:01

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Author: Sarah Stevenage ORCID iD
Author: Gregory Neil
Author: Beth Parsons
Author: Abi Humphreys

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