Title

Familiar voices are more Intelligible, even if they are not recognized as familiar

Authors and Researchers

BrainsCAN, Western University
Emma Holmes, Western University
Ysabel Domingo, Western University
Ingrid Johnsrude, Western University

Files

Description

This research has demonstrated that it’s easier to understand someone who is familiar to us (compared to someone unfamiliar) even if we can’t recognize them from their voice. As listeners, we focus on certain parts of speech sounds for specific purposes. For example, there may be some situations in which you can understand words spoken by your mother very well, better than you could understand a stranger in the same situation, even if you can’t tell that it’s your mother speaking.

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

BrainsCAN

City

London

Keywords

Hearing and auditory perception

Disciplines

Neurosciences

Publication

Psychological Science 2018, Vol. 29(10) 1575–1583. Available: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618779083

Funding

BrainsCAN Support
Human Cognition and Sensorimotor Core

Research Support
NSERC, CIHR

Notes

Western Faculty, Group or Institution
Brain and Mind Institute

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

BrainsCAN, "Familiar voices are more Intelligible, even if they are not recognized as familiar" (2018). Research Summaries. 1.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/brainscanresearchsummaries/1