Re: sex differences in perception of environmental sounds (valeriy shafiro )


Subject: Re: sex differences in perception of environmental sounds
From:    valeriy shafiro  <firosha@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 17 May 2010 09:47:53 -0500
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Dear Joanna, As far as I know across the studies of environmental sound perception in the last 20-30 years none was designed specifically to examine male/female differences. Results from studies that looked at identification of large collections of different types of environmental sounds also did not find any differences, although in a recent study on environmental sound identification within contextually congruent and incongruent auditory scenes, Brian Gygi and I, saw an overall identification difference between males and females, but it was small (3-4 points) and non significant. It is conceivable that given a large variety of familiar environmental sounds tested in these studies, whatever differences there may be between males and females are obscured, and that for a set of specific sounds there are may be sex differeces in behavioral of physiologic measures (e.g. baby crying). While not specifically targeting environmental sounds, John Neuhoff did find some interesting sex differences in the perception of looming motion, which might relevant to your question. Best regards, Valeriy On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Joanna Kantor-Martynuska <joanna.kantor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Auditory List, > > I would very much appreciate your suggestions about the literature regarding > sex differences in perception of environmental sounds. I’m intrested in > physiological indices of auditory predispositions for perception of > different sounds we encounter in our natural environment. > > Looking forward to any interesting suggestions or links. > > Best, > Joanna Kantor


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