Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Sex differences in auditory processing From: Anna Wolf <anna.wolf@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:23:11 +0100--Apple-Mail=_DBBE53E2-38D0-438E-8315-A347A2412160 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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.=20 Best Anna > Am 10.01.2022 um 15:41 schrieb moleti <moleti@xxxxxxxx>: >=20 > Dear Ani, >=20 > 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. >=20 > regards >=20 > Arturo >=20 > 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 = <https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel> [1] >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel = <https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel> --Apple-Mail=_DBBE53E2-38D0-438E-8315-A347A2412160 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">Dear = Ani, dear all,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">we = found sex differences in both ear training and musical imagery skills in = music students/musicians, see:</div><div class=3D"">Wolf, A., & = Kopiez, R. (2018). Development and Validation of the Musical Ear = Training Assessment (META). Journal of Research in Music = Education, 66, 53-70.<br class=3D"">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.</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">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. </div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">Best</div><div class=3D"">Anna</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D""><div><br class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div = class=3D"">Am 10.01.2022 um 15:41 schrieb moleti <<a = href=3D"mailto:moleti@xxxxxxxx" = class=3D"">moleti@xxxxxxxx</a>>:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><meta = charset=3D"UTF-8" class=3D""><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">Dear Ani,</span><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">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.</span><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none;" class=3D""><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none;" class=3D""><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; float: none; display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">regards</span><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">Arturo</span><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); = font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><br style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">On 2022-01-09 16:33, Patel, Aniruddh D. wrote:</span><br = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" = class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: = start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=3D"">Dear = List,<br class=3D"">I am trying to find papers reporting sex differences = in behavioral or<br class=3D"">neural measures of auditory processing in = vertebrates.<br class=3D"">I'd be grateful for pointers to any = references, including review<br class=3D"">chapters.<br class=3D"">Btw, = my impression from the papers I've found so far is that females<br = class=3D"">generally outperform males (e.g., refs below), and I wonder = if this<br class=3D"">holds across a larger<br class=3D"">set of = studies.<br class=3D"">Benichov, J. I., Benezra, S. E., Vallentin, D., = Globerson, E., Long,<br class=3D"">M. A., & Tchernichovski, O. = (2016). The forebrain song system mediates<br class=3D"">predictive call = timing in female and male zebra finches. _Current<br class=3D"">Biology_, = _26_(3), 309-318.<br class=3D"">Kriengwatana, B., Spierings, M. J., = & ten Cate, C. (2016). Auditory<br class=3D"">discrimination = learning in zebra finches: effects of sex, early life<br = class=3D"">conditions and stimulus characteristics. _Animal Behaviour_, = _116_,<br class=3D"">99-112.<br class=3D"">Krizman, J., Bonacina, S., = & Kraus, N. (2020). Sex differences in<br class=3D"">subcortical = auditory processing only partially explain higher<br class=3D"">prevalence= of language disorders in males. _Hearing research_, _398_,<br = class=3D"">108075.<br class=3D"">Thanks, and best wishes for the new = year,<br class=3D"">Ani Patel<br class=3D"">Aniruddh D. Patel<br = class=3D"">Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University<br = class=3D"">CIFAR Fellow<br class=3D"">Brain, Mind, and Consciousness = Program<br class=3D""><a = href=3D"https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel" = class=3D"">https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel</= a><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>[1]<br = class=3D"">Links:<br class=3D"">------<br class=3D"">[1]<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel" = class=3D"">https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/people/faculty/aniruddh-patel</= a></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br = class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_DBBE53E2-38D0-438E-8315-A347A2412160--