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  • Voice attractiveness significantly influences social interactions and mate selection.
  • The mandatory nature and processing stages of voice attractiveness perception remain unclear.

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  • To investigate the mandatory nature of voice attractiveness perception.
  • To explore the temporal dynamics of processing attractive voices using event-related brain potentials (ERPs).

Main Methods:

  • Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants performed an implicit tone detection task or an explicit voice attractiveness judgment task.
  • Participants listened to syllables spoken by male and female voices varying in attractiveness.

Main Results:

  • Attractive male voices elicited a larger N1 component compared to unattractive voices in both tasks.
  • An effect of voice attractiveness on the late positive complex (LPC) was observed only during the explicit judgment task, for both same- and opposite-sex voices.

Conclusions:

  • Early-stage processing of voice attractiveness appears rapid, mandatory, and potentially linked to mate selection mechanisms.
  • Later, more elaborate processing of voice attractiveness is strategic, attention-dependent, and influenced by aesthetic considerations.