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The hypothesis of no difference between the recognition of sung and spoken voices was tested by presenting 24 Ss with two dichotic voice recognition tests which were similar in all respects except that stimuli were spoken on one and sung on the other. A finding of significantly more accurate speaker recognition indicated differences in the processing of singing and speaking voices. Results of the singer recognition test replicated a previous finding of no significant difference between ears. A similar lack of lateralization for speaker recognition could not be unambiguously interpreted because the absence of ear asymmetry was significantly related to very high levels of overall accuracy.
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This research was supported by Grant MA-1652 from the Medical Research Council of Canada. The melodies were composed by Steven D. Freygood. Thanks are also extended to D. G. Doehring for his helpful comments on the manuscript and for sponsoring this paper, and to C. Cote and R. Springer for help in test preparation, subject testing, and data analysis.
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Bartholomeus, B. Dichotic singer and speaker recognition. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 407–408 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336735
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336735