| Dear Ani, dear all,
we found sex differences in both ear training and musical imagery skills in music students/musicians, see: Wolf, A., & Kopiez, R. (2018). Development and Validation of the Musical Ear Training Assessment (META). Journal of Research in Music Education, 66, 53-70.
Wolf, A., Kopiez, R., & Platz, F. (2018). Thinking in music: An objective measure of notation-evoked sound imagery in musicians. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 28(4), 209-221.
For both skills men outperformed women, which replicated in every sample we collected for these papers. My best guess is a difference in motivation in female and male students with music theory and ear training being the most logical and structural type of skill within a music programme (the MINT within music, maybe). Plus probably stereotype threat, since in Germany most music theory staff are male.
Best Anna
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.regardsArturoOn 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]
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