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Rochelle S Newman1, Giovanna Morini1.
Abstract
When faced with multiple people speaking simultaneously, adult listeners use the sex of the talkers as a cue for separating competing streams of speech. As a result, adult listeners show better performance when a target and a background voice differ from one another in sex. Recent research suggests that infants under 1 year do not show this advantage. So when do infants begin to use talker-gender cues for stream segregation? These studies find that 16-month-olds do not show an advantage when the masker and target differ in sex. However, by 30 months, toddlers show the more adult-like pattern of performance.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28253666 PMCID: PMC5392099 DOI: 10.1121/1.4976498
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Acoust Soc Am ISSN: 0001-4966 Impact factor: 1.840