Subject: Re: sex differences in perception of environmental sounds From: Joanna Kantor-Martynuska <joanna.kantor@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:58:51 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Valeriy, Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with me. I am specifically interested in physiological measures of responses to sounds like baby crying. Best regards, Joanna On 5/17/10 4:47 PM, "valeriy shafiro" <firosha@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Joanna, > > As far as I know across the studies of environmental sound perception > in the last 20-30 years none was designed specifically to examine > male/female differences. Results from studies that looked at > identification of large collections of different types of > environmental sounds also did not find any differences, although in a > recent study on environmental sound identification within contextually > congruent and incongruent auditory scenes, Brian Gygi and I, saw an > overall identification difference between males and females, but it > was small (3-4 points) and non significant. It is conceivable that > given a large variety of familiar environmental sounds tested in these > studies, whatever differences there may be between males and females > are obscured, and that for a set of specific sounds there are may be > sex differeces in behavioral of physiologic measures (e.g. baby > crying). While not specifically targeting environmental sounds, John > Neuhoff did find some interesting sex differences in the perception of > looming motion, which might relevant to your question. > > Best regards, > > Valeriy > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Joanna Kantor-Martynuska > <joanna.kantor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dear Auditory List, >> >> I would very much appreciate your suggestions about the literature regarding >> sex differences in perception of environmental sounds. Iım intrested in >> physiological indices of auditory predispositions for perception of >> different sounds we encounter in our natural environment. >> >> Looking forward to any interesting suggestions or links. >> >> Best, >> Joanna Kantor