Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception.

ABSTRACT: Familiar and unfamiliar voice perception are often understood as being distinct from each other. For identity perception, theoretical work has proposed that listeners use acoustic information in different ways to perceive identity from familiar and unfamiliar voices: Unfamiliar voices are thought to be processed based on close comparisons of acoustic properties, while familiar voices are processed based on diagnostic acoustic features that activate a stored person-specific representation of that voice. To date no empirical study has directly examined whether and how familiar and unfamiliar listeners differ in their use of acoustic information for identity perception. Here, we tested this theoretical claim by linking listeners' judgements in voice identity tasks to complex acoustic represen

SUBMITTER: Lavan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8381763 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature