Re: [AUDITORY] Sex differences in auditory processing

[Martin Braun <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

McFadden & Co not only established that females outperform males in SOAE 
incidence and levels (by a strikingly huge difference) but also by hearing 
threshold in quiet. Interestingly, to my knowledge neither McFadden nor 
anybody else could as yet present a convincing theory for the reasons of 
these differences. There have been data that outer hair cell (OHC) 
physiology is affected by sex hormones, but apparently SOAE researchers and 
OHC researchers have been living too much apart and neither of them has 
followed this up.

PS: I assume that females are also better in central auditory processing of 
speech, but I am not aware of any data in that realm.

Greetings

Martin


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From: moleti
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 3:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Sex differences in auditory processing

Dear Ani,

there are well-known sex differences in otoacoustic emission levels,
e.g. McFadden papers, with females outperforming males. You can easily
find several references searching for "sex difference OAE", e.g., on
Pubmed.

regards

Arturo

On 2022-01-09 16:33, Patel, Aniruddh D. wrote:
> 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 [1]
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel