Flexible voices: Identity perception from variable vocal signals |
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Authors: | Lavan Nadine Burton A. Mike Scott Sophie K. McGettigan Carolyn |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK ;2.Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK ;3.Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK ; |
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Abstract: | Human voices are extremely variable: The same person can sound very different depending on whether they are speaking, laughing, shouting or whispering. In order to successfully recognise someone from their voice, a listener needs to be able to generalize across these different vocal signals (‘telling people together’). However, in most studies of voice-identity processing to date, the substantial within-person variability has been eliminated through the use of highly controlled stimuli, thus focussing on how we tell people apart. We argue that this obscures our understanding of voice-identity processing by controlling away an essential feature of vocal stimuli that may include diagnostic information. In this paper, we propose that we need to extend the focus of voice-identity research to account for both “telling people together” as well as “telling people apart.” That is, we must account for whether, and to what extent, listeners can overcome within-person variability to obtain a stable percept of person identity from vocal cues. To do this, our theoretical and methodological frameworks need to be adjusted to explicitly include the study of within-person variability. |
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