Subject: Re: sex differences in perception of environmental sounds From: "Bruno L. Giordano" <bruno.giordano@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:28:30 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hello Joanna, you might check the brain imaging literature then. A good place to start with when voice is of interest is the work of Pascal Belin et al. Scholar-google him and you'll find quite a lot, perhaps some gender differences too. Best, Bruno Joanna Kantor-Martynuska wrote: > Dear Valeriy, > Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with me. I am specifically > interested in physiological measures of responses to sounds like baby > crying. > Best regards, > Joanna > > > On 5/17/10 4:47 PM, "valeriy shafiro" <firosha@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. Iım 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 > > > __________ NOD32 4977 (20100326) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >