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Background:

Identity sorting tasks are popular in voice and face processing research.
Participants often struggle to group stimuli of the same identity when unfamiliar.
This suggests potential modality-general mechanisms in sorting behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the correlation between voice and face identity sorting performance in unfamiliar individuals.
To examine the relationship between identity sorting and explicit identity discrimination abilities.
To explore modality-general and modality-specific processes in identity perception.

Main Methods:

Participants completed voice and face identity sorting tasks.
Voice discrimination (Bangor Voice Matching Test) and face discrimination (Glasgow Face Matching Test) were administered.
Individual differences in performance were analyzed.

Main Results:

Voice and face sorting performance were significantly correlated, indicating shared modality-general processes.
Sorting performance did not significantly correlate with discrimination performance, except for "same identity" trials.
Relationships between sorting and discrimination were generally weak, suggesting task-specific influences.

Conclusions:

Common modality-general mechanisms contribute to both voice and face identity sorting.
Explicit identity discrimination abilities are not strongly linked to sorting performance.
Modality-specific and task-specific factors also play a role in identity perception and sorting.