Familiarity and Voice Representation: From Acoustic-Based Representation to Voice Averages.

ABSTRACT: The ability to recognize an individual from their voice is a widespread ability with a long evolutionary history. Yet, the perceptual representation of familiar voices is ill-defined. In two experiments, we explored the neuropsychological processes involved in the perception of voice identity. We specifically explored the hypothesis that familiar voices (trained-to-familiar (Experiment 1), and famous voices (Experiment 2)) are represented as a whole complex pattern, well approximated by the average of multiple utterances produced by a single speaker. In experiment 1, participants learned three voices over several sessions, and performed a three-alternative forced-choice identification task on original voice samples and several "speaker averages," created by morphing across varying numbers

SUBMITTER: Fontaine M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5509798 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature