Who We Are

Sidtis, Diana Van Lancker; Zäske, Romi

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“…Understanding exactly what voice cues were utilized by perpetrators in informing their ratings merits further investigation. As mentioned, voices are fundamental means of communication, sometimes even more effective than facial and body-language related factors (Sidtis & Zäske, 2021 ). Individuals with predatory tendencies seem to be more adept at prioritizing cues related to previous victimization in voice.…”

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Can perpetrators discern survivors from voice?

Monti,

D’Andrea,

Carroll

et al. 2024

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Research has shown that potential perpetrators and individuals high in psychopathic traits tend to body language cues to target a potential new victim. However, whether targeting occurs also by tending to vocal cues has not been examined. Thus, the role of voice in interpersonal violence merits investigation. Objective: In two studies, we examined whether perpetrators could differentiate female speakers with and without sexual and physical assault histories (presented as rating the degree of ‘vulnerability’ to victimization). Methods: Two samples of male listeners (sample one N = 105, sample two, N = 109) participated. Each sample rated 18 voices (9 survivors and 9 controls). Listener sample one heard spontaneous speech, and listener sample two heard the second sentence of a standardized passage. Listeners’ self-reported psychopathic traits and history of previous perpetration were measured. Results: Across both samples, history of perpetration (but not psychopathy) predicted accuracy in distinguishing survivors of assault. Conclusions: These findings highlight the potential role of voice in prevention and intervention. Gaining a further understanding of what voice cues are associated with accuracy in discerning survivors can also help us understand whether or not specialized voice training could have a role in self-defense practices.

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“…Voice is a fundamental instrument of communication that carries information at a distance significantly further than body language and facial expressions. Infants are born with the ability to recognize the mother from voice alone, underlining the fundamental role of voice in social bonding and survival (Sidtis & Zäske, 2021 ).…”

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Can perpetrators discern survivors from voice?

Monti,

D’Andrea,

Carroll

et al. 2024

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Humans and a diversity of other animals exhibit social recognition [1][2][3], the act of recognizing other individuals based on previous experiences and assigning them to one or more social categories (e.g., "neighbor", "offspring", or "nest-mate"). Across animals, recognized social categories vary along a continuum of specificity, ranging from species recognition at the most general end of the continuum to the recognition of particular individuals at the most specific [4].…”

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Identity signaling, identity reception and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog

Tumulty

Lange

Bee

2021

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Animals recognize familiar individuals to perform a variety of important social behaviors. Social recognition is often mediated by communication between signalers who produce signals that contain identity information and receivers who categorize these signals based on previous experience. We tested two hypotheses about adaptations in signalers and receivers that enable the evolution of social recognition using two species of closely related territorial poison frogs. Male golden rocket frogs (Anomaloglossus beebei) recognize the advertisement calls of conspecific territory neighbors and display a "dear enemy effect" by responding less aggressively to neighbors than strangers, while male Kai rocket frogs (A. kaiei) do not. Our results did not support the identity signaling hypothesis: both species produced advertisement calls that contain similar amounts of identity information. Our results did support the identity reception hypothesis: both species exhibited habituation of aggression to playbacks simulating the arrival of a new neighbor, but only golden rocket frogs showed renewed aggression when they subsequently heard calls from a different male. These results suggest that an ancestral mechanism of plasticity in aggression common among frogs has been modified through natural selection to be specific to calls of individual males in golden rocket frogs, enabling a social recognition system.

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Formant‐invariant voice and pitch representations are pre‐attentively formed from constantly varying speech and non‐speech stimuli

Dona

Scaltritti

Sulpizio

2022

Eur J of Neuroscience

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The present study investigated whether listeners can form abstract voice representations while ignoring constantly changing phonological information and if they can use the resulting information to facilitate voice change detection. Further, the study aimed at understanding whether the use of abstraction is restricted to the speech domain or can be deployed also in non‐speech contexts. We ran an electroencephalogram (EEG) experiment including one passive and one active oddball task, each featuring a speech and a rotated speech condition. In the speech condition, participants heard constantly changing vowels uttered by a male speaker (standard stimuli) which were infrequently replaced by vowels uttered by a female speaker with higher pitch (deviant stimuli). In the rotated speech condition, participants heard rotated vowels, in which the natural formant structure of speech was disrupted. In the passive task, the mismatch negativity was elicited after the presentation of the deviant voice in both conditions, indicating that listeners could successfully group together different stimuli into a formant‐invariant voice representation. In the active task, participants showed shorter reaction times (RTs), higher accuracy and a larger P3b in the speech condition with respect to the rotated speech condition. Results showed that whereas at a pre‐attentive level the cognitive system can track pitch regularities while presumably ignoring constantly changing formant information both in speech and in rotated speech, at an attentive level the use of such information is facilitated for speech. This facilitation was also testified by a stronger synchronisation in the theta band (4–7 Hz), potentially pointing towards differences in encoding/retrieval processes.

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Who We Are

Cited by 4 publications

References 209 publications

Can perpetrators discern survivors from voice?

Can perpetrators discern survivors from voice?

Identity signaling, identity reception and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog

Formant‐invariant voice and pitch representations are pre‐attentively formed from constantly varying speech and non‐speech stimuli

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