Sorting through the impact of familiarity when processing vocal identity: results from a voice sorting task
Sorting through the impact of familiarity when processing vocal identity: results from a voice sorting task
The present article reports on one experiment designed to examine the importance of familiarity when processing vocal identity. A voice sorting task was used with participants who were either personally familiar or unfamiliar with three speakers. The results suggested that familiarity supported both an ability to tell different instances of the same voice together, and to tell similar instances of different voices apart. In addition, the results suggested differences between the three speakers in terms of the extent to which they were confusable, underlining the importance of vocal characteristics and stimulus selection within behavioural tasks. The results are discussed with reference to existing debates regarding the nature of stored representations as familiarity develops, and the difficulty when processing voices over faces more generally.
voice identification, voice sorting task, familiarity
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Stevenage, Sarah
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Symons, Ashley
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Fletcher, Abi
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Coen, Chantelle
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1 April 2020
Stevenage, Sarah
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Symons, Ashley
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Fletcher, Abi
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Stevenage, Sarah, Symons, Ashley, Fletcher, Abi and Coen, Chantelle
(2020)
Sorting through the impact of familiarity when processing vocal identity: results from a voice sorting task.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73 (4), .
(doi:10.1177/1747021819888064).
Abstract
The present article reports on one experiment designed to examine the importance of familiarity when processing vocal identity. A voice sorting task was used with participants who were either personally familiar or unfamiliar with three speakers. The results suggested that familiarity supported both an ability to tell different instances of the same voice together, and to tell similar instances of different voices apart. In addition, the results suggested differences between the three speakers in terms of the extent to which they were confusable, underlining the importance of vocal characteristics and stimulus selection within behavioural tasks. The results are discussed with reference to existing debates regarding the nature of stored representations as familiarity develops, and the difficulty when processing voices over faces more generally.
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2019
Published date: 1 April 2020
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by funding from the EPSRC (grant number EP/R030839/1) awarded to the first author.
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Keywords:
voice identification, voice sorting task, familiarity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434542
ISSN: 1747-0218
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