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Romi Zäske1, Christiane Fritz, Stefan R Schweinberger

  • 1Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany. romi.zaeske@uni-jena.de

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Summary

Auditory adaptation to voice gender requires spatial attention. Focusing on one ear

Area of Science:

  • Auditory perception
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Speech processing

Background:

  • Contrastive aftereffects are observed in phonetic and face perception.
  • Previous research shows mixed results on the role of attention in auditory and visual aftereffects.
  • Voice gender adaptation is a known phenomenon, but its attentional requirements are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of spatial and dimensional selective attention in voice gender adaptation.
  • To determine if voice gender processing is automatic or requires task-relevant attention.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were presented with gender-specific adaptor voices in one ear and gender-neutral voices in the other.
  • Selective spatial attention was manipulated by requiring participants to attend to one ear.

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  • Two experiments varied the task within the attended ear: voice gender classification and syllable identification.

    • Main Results:

    • Voice gender aftereffects were eliminated when adaptor voices were spatially unattended.
    • Aftereffects were observed when gender-specific voices were spatially attended, irrespective of task relevance (gender or syllable).
    • This suggests that voice gender is processed automatically when spatially attended.

    Conclusions:

    • Voice gender adaptation is dependent on spatial selective attention.
    • Processing of voice gender occurs automatically within the attended ear, even when not the primary task.
    • Dimensional attention (task-focus) is not necessary for voice gender adaptation.