The effect of gender on a frequency discrimination task in children

Zaltz, Yael; Roth, Daphne Ari‐Even; Gover, Hilla; Liran, Shay; Kishon‐Rabin, Liat

doi:10.1515/jbcpp-2014-0048

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“…For example, men seem to have a greater ability to ignore taskirrelevant acoustic distractors (Espinoza-Varas & Jajoria, 2009) or to localize target sounds in a multisource sound environment (Lewald & Hausmann, 2013;Zündorf et al, 2011). Also, for preteen children, boys outperformed girls in a frequency discrimination task, which may rather indicate inherent physiological differences between the sexes than socialization effects (Zaltz et al, 2014). We therefore assume that positive results that can be obtained with females are more likely to be generalizable across gender than vice versa, although this would of course need to be tested in further studies.…”

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Voluntary auditory change: First-person access to agentive aspects of attention regulation

Wagemann

2022

Curr Psychol

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In perceptual psychology, audition and introspection have not yet received as much attention as other topics (e.g., vision) and methods (third-person paradigms). Practical examples and theoretical considerations show that it nevertheless seems promising to treat both topics in conjunction to gain insights into basic structures of attention regulation and respective agentive awareness. To this end, an empirical study on voluntary auditory change was conducted with a non-reactive first-person design. Data were analyzed with a mixed methods approach and compared with an analogous study on visual reversal. Qualitative hierarchical coding and explorative statistics yield a cross-modal replication of frequency patterns of mental activity as well as significant differences between the modalities. On this basis, the role of mental agency in perception is refined in terms of different levels of intention and discussed in the context of the philosophical mental action debate as well as of the Global Workspace/Working Memory account. As a main result, this work suggests the existence and structure of a gradual and developable agentive attention awareness on which voluntary attention regulation can build, and which justifies speaking, in a certain sense, of attentional self-perception.

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Voluntary auditory change: First-person access to agentive aspects of attention regulation

Wagemann

2022

Curr Psychol

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“…A second explanation for the gender disparity originates at the neurophysiological level. Zaltz, Roth, Gover, Liran, and Kishon-Rabin (2014) found significant differences in pitch perception in children (better performances from boys). Investigating both pitch and loudness discrimination, Rammsayer and Troche (2012) also found that men outperformed women, a fact that still held true after controlling for musical training.…”

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Development and Validation of the Musical Ear Training Assessment (META)

Wolf

Kopiez

2018

Journal of Research in Music Education

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In the following study, we have developed an assessment instrument for the practice-dependent skill of analytical hearing following a strict test theoretical validation, resulting in the Musical Ear Training Assessment (META). By means of three pilot studies, a developmental study, and a validation study, we verified a one-dimensional test model using item response theory identifying the best 53 items to measure a person’s ear training and analytical hearing skill. For better application, two test versions with 10 and 25 items have been compiled (META-10 and META-25). Aside from psychometric test development, it was possible to investigate a variety of moderator variables assumed to influence ear training skill. The participants’ main instrument did not influence the META score, nor did whether participants had learned some method of solmization. However, the most played genre ( d = 0.20) and, unforeseen by us, the participants’ gender ( d = 0.23; males outperforming females) had significant impacts on the test score. This test instrument enables empirical research into the relevance of ear training for general musical skills, intervention studies on skill acquisition, and standardized assessment for advanced music students and musicians.

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“…Men and women have also been observed to differ in their ability to detect, discriminate, and identify odors (F>M; for a review see Brand & Millot, 2001), to detect sweet, bitter, and sour tastes (F>M; Fikentscher, Roseburg, Spinar, & Bruchmüller, 1977), and to detect touch (F>M; Mogil, 2012;Velle, 1987). Second, the few studies showing sex differences in perception during development are for tasks for which sex differences have been documented in adults: auditory puretone detection (children; Roche, Siervogel, Himes, & Johnson, 1978) and frequency discrimination (children; Zaltz, Roth, Gover, Liran, & Kishon-Rabin, 2014), discrimination of static visual stimuli (infants; Held, Shimojo, & Gwiazda, 1984), detection of the odor of androstenone (adolescents; Dorries, Schmidt, Beauchamp, & Wysocki, 1989), detection of sweetness (infants; Nisbett & Gurwitz, 1970), and the detection of touch (infants; Bell & Costello, 1964).…”

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Transient sex differences during adolescence on auditory perceptual tasks

Huyck

Wright

2017

Developmental Science

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Many perceptual abilities differ between the sexes. Because these sex differences have been documented almost exclusively in adults, they have been attributed to sex-specific neural circuitry that emerges during development and is maintained in the mature perceptual system. To investigate whether behavioral sex differences in perception can also have other origins, we compared performance between males and females ranging in age from 8 to 30 years on auditory temporal-interval discrimination and tone-in-noise detection tasks on which there are no sex differences in adults. If sex differences in perception arise only from the establishment and subsequent maintenance of sex-specific neural circuitry, there should be no sex differences during development on these tasks. In contrast, sex differences emerged in adolescence but resolved by adulthood on two of the six conditions, with signs of a similar pattern on a third condition. In each case, males reached mature performance earlier than females, resulting in a sex difference in the interim. These results suggest that sex differences in perception may arise from differences in the maturational timing of common circuitry used by both sexes. They also imply that sex differences in perceptual abilities may be more prevalent than previously thought based on adult data alone.

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The effect of gender on a frequency discrimination task in children

Abstract: This evidence suggests that it is more likely that inherent physiological differences between the sexes influence the differential outcomes reported in the present study.

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Voluntary auditory change: First-person access to agentive aspects of attention regulation

Voluntary auditory change: First-person access to agentive aspects of attention regulation

Development and Validation of the Musical Ear Training Assessment (META)

Transient sex differences during adolescence on auditory perceptual tasks

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