Learning to match faces and voices

Date Issued:: 2010
Summary:: This study examines whether forming a single identity is crucial to learning to bind faces and voices, or if people are equally able to do so without tying this information to an identity. To test this, individuals learned paired faces and voices that were in one of three different conditions: True voice, Gender Matched, or Gender Mismatched conditions. Performance was measured in a training phase as well as a test phase, and results show that participants were able to learn more quickly and have higher overall performance for learning in the True Voice and Gender Matched conditions. During the test phase, performance was almost at chance in the Gender Mismatched condition which may mean that learning in the training phase was simply memorization of the pairings for this condition. Results support the hypothesis that learning to bind faces and voices is a process that involves forming a supramodal identity from multisensory learning.

Title:	Learning to match faces and voices.	109 views 41 downloads
Name(s):	Davidson, Meredith. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Psychology
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued:	2010
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form:	electronic
Extent:	vi, 32 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language(s):	English
Summary:	This study examines whether forming a single identity is crucial to learning to bind faces and voices, or if people are equally able to do so without tying this information to an identity. To test this, individuals learned paired faces and voices that were in one of three different conditions: True voice, Gender Matched, or Gender Mismatched conditions. Performance was measured in a training phase as well as a test phase, and results show that participants were able to learn more quickly and have higher overall performance for learning in the True Voice and Gender Matched conditions. During the test phase, performance was almost at chance in the Gender Mismatched condition which may mean that learning in the training phase was simply memorization of the pairings for this condition. Results support the hypothesis that learning to bind faces and voices is a process that involves forming a supramodal identity from multisensory learning.
Identifier:	649689269 (oclc), 2683140 (digitool), FADT2683140 (IID), fau:3498 (fedora)
Note(s):	by Meredith Davidson. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s):	Sensorimotor integration Senses and sensation Intersensory effects Perceptual learning Pattern recognition systems
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683140
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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