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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Neuroscience

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  • Auditory adaptation influences voice perception, creating contrastive aftereffects.
  • Processing of task-irrelevant stimuli depends on perceptual and working memory resources.
  • Faces may be an exception, escaping perceptual load effects due to social significance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if voice gender aftereffects (VGAEs) are influenced by perceptual load or working memory load.
  • To determine if task-irrelevant voices, like faces, can escape perceptual load effects.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Assessed VGAEs under low vs. high perceptual load during a visual search task with irrelevant voice adaptors.
  • Experiment 2: Assessed VGAEs under low vs. high working memory load during a visual recognition task with irrelevant voice adaptors.

Main Results:

  • VGAEs were unaffected by varying levels of perceptual load.
  • VGAEs were significantly enhanced under high working memory load.
  • Task-irrelevant voices, similar to faces, appear to escape general perceptual load effects.

Conclusions:

  • Voice processing is not automatic and is influenced by cognitive load.
  • Visual working memory load, not general perceptual load, modulates the processing of task-irrelevant voices.
  • These findings contribute to understanding selective attention and auditory adaptation mechanisms.