Listeners form average-based representations of individual voice identities

People can learn to identify a person based on their voice, despite variation in their voice. Here, the authors show that this ability relies on a statistical abstraction mechanism during which people form average-based representations of voices, even without prior exposure to the average.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nadine Lavan, Sarah Knight, Carolyn McGettigan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10295-w