ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
The time course of person perception from voices in the brain.
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- An Electrophysiological Study on the Neural Responses of Speaker Discrimination.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Can conceptual beliefs shape impressions from voices?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
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- Language Experience Shapes Neural Grouping of Speech by Accent: EEG Evidence from Native, Second-Language, and Heritage Listeners.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Attentional Engagement with Target and Distractor Streams Predicts Speech Comprehension in Multitalker Environments.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Time after time: Voice perception from first impressions to identity recognition.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Review
- Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non-autistic adults.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- Behind a Voice There is a Speaker: Why Vocal Emotion Research Needs to Become 'Personal'.Affective science · 2025Review
- Voice identity invariance by anterior temporal lobe neurons.Science advances · 2025Article
- Probabilistic adaptation of language comprehension for individual speakers: evidence from neural oscillations.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Voice clones sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
When listeners hear a voice, they rapidly form a complex first impression of who the person behind that voice might be. We characterize how these multivariate first impressions from voices emerge over time across different levels of abstraction using electroencephalography and representational similarity analysis. We find that for eight perceived physical (gender, age, and health), trait (attractiveness, dominance, and trustworthiness), and social characteristics (educatedness and professionalism), representations emerge early (~80 ms after stimulus onset), with voice acoustics contributing to those representations between ~100 ms and 400 ms. While impressions of person characteristics are highly correlated, we can find evidence for highly abstracted, independent representations of individual person characteristics. These abstracted representationse merge gradually over time. That is, representations of physical characteristics (age, gender) arise early (from ~120 ms), while representations of some trait and social characteristics emerge later (~360 ms onward). The findings align with recent theoretical models and shed light on the computations underpinning person perception from voices.
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