Association Between Sex and Speech Auditory Brainstem Responses in Adults, and Relationship to Sex Hormone Levels

Liu, Jinfeng; Wang, Dan; Li, Xiaoting; Wang, Ningyu

doi:10.12659/msm.904651

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“…But many individuals do not categorize themselves with a discrete binary label, and it would do the science and the individuals a disservice to gloss over the often subtle and diverse variations in gender identity present in the population at large, even within male and female categories (J. L. Johnson & Repta 2012). Despite the potential complications in identifying the precise biosocial gender of an individual, it is still an important factor for phenomena involving social identity and certain physiology relevant to linguistic processes such as auditory brainstem responses (Liu et al 2017). One's biosocial gender can affect mental, emotional, and social well-being outcomes, indexical properties of speech, and perception of in-group versus out-group (Rubin & Greene 1991;Zimman 2017;K.…”

Section: Biosocial Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference

Ackerman

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper presents a framework for how the multifaceted nature of "gender" (human and linguistic) interacts with grammatical operations such as coreference dependency formation. It frames the question through the lens of English, in which it focuses on how personal names and referents who identify as nonbinary can provide insight into the conceptual representations of gender. Additional data from a variety of modern languages supports a model of how gender might be cognitively represented such that the observed linguistic patterns are available. I propose a three-tiered model of gender that unites grammatical, cognitive, social, and biological aspects and describes how implications of this model might be tested in future work.

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Section: Biosocial Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference

Ackerman

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…These peaks had similar latencies to other species, appearing within the first 6-8 ms after the click stimulation (Benichoux et al, 2018). Studies have shown that in humans there are clear differences in amplitude and latencies of speech-ABRs, and generally shorter latencies across ABR-type (Watson, 1996; López-Escámez et al, 1999; McFadden et al, 2010; Liu et al, 2017). There were clear sex differences in monaural peak and amplitude of ABR responses in prairie voles.…”

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Hearing Ability of Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

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Hearing ability of mammals can be impacted by many factors including social cues, environment, and physical properties of animal morphology. Despite being used commonly to study social behaviors, the hearing ability of the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) has never been fully characterized. In this study, we measure morphological head and pinna features and use auditory brainstem responses to measure hearing ability of prairie voles characterizing monaural and binaural hearing and hearing range. Additionally, we measured unbonded male and female voles to characterize differences due to sex. We found that prairie voles have intermediate hearing ability with an optimal hearing range of 8 to 32 kHz, robust binaural hearing ability, and characteristic monaural ABRs. We show no differences between the sexes for binaural hearing or hearing range, however female voles have increased amplitude of peripheral ABR waves I and II and increased latency of wave IV. Our results confirm that prairie voles have both low and high frequency hearing, binaural hearing capability, and despite biparental care and monogamy, differences in processing of sound information between the sexes. These data further highlight the necessity to understand sex-specific differences in neural processing that may underly variability in behavioral responses between sexes.

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“…Prenatal exposure to testosterone in humans influences various childhood behaviors, including the later adoption of stereotypically gendered behaviors (sometimes referred to as "sex roles", "gender roles", or "gender" more broadly, e.g. Ackerman [under review]) (Pasterski et al 2005, Auyeung et al 2009, CohenBendahan, van de Beek and Berenbaum 2005, Hines, Constantinescu and Spencer 2016, social learning of genderrelated labels for objects as in toys that are "for girls" or "for boys" (Hines et al 2016), infant eyecontact (Lutchmaya, BaronCohen and Raggatt 2002), and lateralisation of certain cognitive functions (Liu et al 2017, Manson 2008. Thus, we…”

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Attention To People Like You: A Proposal Regarding Neuroendocrine Effects on Linguistic Variation

Ackerman¹,

Hejná²

2019

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Although the literature on language change has often replicated and discussed a pattern inwhich female speakers lead in changes that occur below the level of awareness, there is noconsensus on why this pattern should arise. Two major suggestions have been put forward.On the one hand, Labov (1990) has proposed that a possible explanation may be due tocaregiver asymmetries during childhood, with women being frequently the primarycaregivers in the relevant communities. On the other hand, Eckert (2011) has suggested thatwomen are more likely to engage in ‘social engineering’ and symbolic domination than men,due to the setup of the gender roles in their communities, which makes them more likely to belinguistic innovators. Interestingly, recent findings in endocrinology show that differences inprenatal testosterone exposure can impact learning patterns. In the light of these findings, wefirst present preliminary results consistent with the hypothesis that a biological factor,prenatal exposure to androgens, can have a continuous effect on linguistic variation, namelythe variable duration of preaspiration before voiceless obstruents in Tyneside English. This isin line with findings related to f 0 reported by Ferdezi et al. (2011). Second, we propose anexplanatory model in which the biological factor – prenatal testosterone exposure – createssubtle bias in how speakers learn linguistic variants, and suggest that some reported sexeffects are derivative. This model is compatible with the fact that it is most often females wholead in language change from below, but can also account for situations in which males mightlead a change (Labov 1990: 206).

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Association Between Sex and Speech Auditory Brainstem Responses in Adults, and Relationship to Sex Hormone Levels

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference

Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference

Hearing Ability of Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Attention To People Like You: A Proposal Regarding Neuroendocrine Effects on Linguistic Variation

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