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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Memory Research

Background:

  • Echoic memory retains spoken item acoustics for ~2 seconds.
  • Voice changes disrupt auditory memory more than other acoustic variables.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Examine voice change effects on recognition memory accuracy and response bias.
  • Investigate the duration of voice change impact on echoic memory.

Main Methods:

  • Recognition memory task with dichotically presented digits.
  • Judged probes as present or absent in sets.
  • Utilized same-voice and different-voice probes.
  • Tested at retention intervals up to 4 seconds.

Main Results:

  • Same-voice probe recognition was more accurate than different-voice probes.
  • Different-voice probes increased "absent" responses up to 1.4 seconds.
  • Voice changes significantly impacted accuracy and response bias.

Conclusions:

  • Voice changes have a lasting disruptive effect on echoic memory.
  • Shifts in response bias indicate a specific property of echoic memory.
  • Further research is needed to understand these voice-specific memory effects.