Face and voice perception: Understanding commonalities and differences

AW Young, S Frühholz, SR Schweinberger - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Faces and voices are of high importance in interpersonal communication, and there are
notable parallels between face and voice perception. However, these parallels do not sit …

Flexible voices: Identity perception from variable vocal signals

N Lavan, AM Burton, SK Scott, C McGettigan - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2019 - Springer
Human voices are extremely variable: The same person can sound very different depending
on whether they are speaking, laughing, shouting or whispering. In order to successfully …

[HTML][HTML] The anterior fusiform gyrus: The ghost in the cortical face machine

B Rossion, C Jacques, J Jonas - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Face-selective regions in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) have been
defined for decades mainly with functional magnetic resonance imaging. This face-selective …

Acoustic voice variation within and between speakers

Y Lee, P Keating, J Kreiman - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Little is known about the nature or extent of everyday variability in voice quality. This paper
describes a series of principal component analyses to explore within-and between-talker …

How many voices did you hear? Natural variability disrupts identity perception from unfamiliar voices

N Lavan, LFK Burston, L Garrido - British Journal of Psychology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Our voices sound different depending on the context (laughing vs. talking to a child vs.
giving a speech), making within‐person variability an inherent feature of human voices …

A model for person perception from familiar and unfamiliar voices

N Lavan, C McGettigan - Communications Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
When hearing a voice, listeners can form a detailed impression of the person behind the
voice. Existing models of voice processing focus primarily on one aspect of person …

Effects of body type and voice pitch on perceived audio-visual correspondence and believability of virtual characters

L Lam, M Choi, M Mukanova, K Hauser… - ACM Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We examined the effects of virtual characters' body type and voice pitch on perceived audio-
visual correspondence and believability. For our within-group study (N= 72), we developed …

Cross-modal perceptionist: Can face geometry be gleaned from voices?

CY Wu, CC Hsu, U Neumann - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This work digs into a root question in human perception: can face geometry be gleaned from
one's voices? Previous works that study this question only adopt developments in image …

[HTML][HTML] Nonverbal auditory communication–evidence for integrated neural systems for voice signal production and perception

S Frühholz, SR Schweinberger - Progress in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
While humans have developed a sophisticated and unique system of verbal auditory
communication, they also share a more common and evolutionarily important nonverbal …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of low vision on social function: The potential importance of lost visual social cues

S Klauke, C Sondocie, I Fine - Journal of Optometry, 2023 - Elsevier
Visual cues usually play a vital role in social interaction. As well as being the primary cue for
identifying other people, visual cues also provide crucial non-verbal social information via …