Re: [AUDITORY] Sex differences in auditory processing

[Samuel Mehr <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ani & list,

We cited a few papers on this topic in our BBS target article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32843107. The general pattern, for higher-level auditory tasks, seemed to be minimal-to-zero effects of gender.

Informally, in the many hundreds of thousands of participants who do music perception tasks on our platform internationally, we have found comparably underwhelming sex differences, e.g. on pitch perception, beat alignment, mistuning, etc, but not much of these data are published (yet!)

happy new year all!

Sam

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:10 AM Bernstein,Leslie <lbernstein@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Google: sex differences McFadden

On 1/9/2022 10:33 AM, Patel, Aniruddh D. wrote:

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Dear List,

I am trying to find papers reporting sex differences in behavioral or neural measures of auditory processing in vertebrates.

I'd be grateful for pointers to any references, including review chapters.

Btw, my impression from the papers I've found so far is that females generally outperform males (e.g., refs below), and I wonder if this holds across a larger 

set of studies.

Benichov, J. I., Benezra, S. E., Vallentin, D., Globerson, E., Long, M. A., & Tchernichovski, O. (2016). The forebrain song system mediates predictive call timing in female and male zebra finches. Current Biology, 26(3), 309-318.

Kriengwatana, B., Spierings, M. J., & ten Cate, C. (2016). Auditory discrimination learning in zebra finches: effects of sex, early life conditions and stimulus characteristics. Animal Behaviour, 116, 99-112.

Krizman, J., Bonacina, S., & Kraus, N. (2020). Sex differences in subcortical auditory processing only partially explain higher prevalence of language disorders in males. Hearing research, 398, 108075.

Thanks, and best wishes for the new year,

Ani Patel

Aniruddh D. Patel

Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University

CIFAR Fellow 

Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program

https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel

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