Asymmetric cultural effects on perceptual expertise underlie an own-race bias for voices

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-55

  Perrachione, Tyler K ^a   Chiao, Joan Y ^a   Wong, Patrick C M ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural influences; Dialect; Face perception; Own race bias; Perceptual expertise; Voice perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849107268     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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