Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Voice Quality; Memory; Pitch Perception; Speech Perception; Categorization; Earwitness testimony; Memory distortions; Voice memory; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Psychology (all); General Psychology; General Medicine
Abstract :
[en] Corneille, Huart, Becquart, & Brédart (2004) found that people remember ambiguous race faces as closer to a race prototype than they actually are. In three studies, we examined whether this memory bias generalizes to voice memory. In Studies 1 and 2, participants listened to synthesized male and female speech samples (high, moderate, or low pitch) and were asked to identify a voice target when paired against distracters higher or lower in pitch. The results showed that pitch distortions occurred, with the pattern consistent with assimilation toward low and high ends of the pitch continuum. Study 3 replicated this result with a wider voice pitch range. The results parallel those of Corneille et al. (2004). The implications of this work are discussed.
Disciplines :
Social, industrial & organizational psychology
Author, co-author :
Stern, Steven E; Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown 15904, USA. sstern@pitt.edu
Mullennix, John W; University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, United States
Corneille, Olivier; Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Huart, Johanne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie sociale ; Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
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