Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Listeners form average-based representations of individual voice identities

  • Nadine Lavan,
  • Sarah Knight,
  • Carolyn McGettigan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10295-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.