Vocal pitch regulation depends on the baseline voice F0 feedback: An ERP study for investigating the role of auditory feedback for voice pitch error correction.

2010 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 1990-1990
Author(s):  
Roozbeh Behroozmand ◽  
Charles Larson
Keyword(s):  
Error Correction ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Pitch Error ◽  
Vocal Pitch ◽  
Pitch Regulation

A sweet voice: The influence of crossmodal correspondences between taste and vocal pitch on advertising effectiveness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Motoki ◽  
Toshiki Saito ◽  
Rui Nouchi ◽  
Ryuta Kawashima ◽  
Motoaki Sugiura
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Information ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Crossmodal Correspondences ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Vocal Pitch ◽  
Crossmodal Correspondence

Crossmodal correspondences have been increasingly reported in recent scholarship, and pitch–taste associations have been observed. People consistently associate high-pitched vocal tones with sweet/sour foods, while low-pitched tones tend to be associated with bitter foods. The human voice is key in broadcast advertising, and the role of voice in communication generally is partly characterized by acoustic parameters of pitch. However, it remains unknown whether voice pitch and other senses relevant to product attributes (e.g., taste) interactively influence consumer behavior. Since congruent sensory information is desirable, it is plausible that voice pitch and taste interactively guide consumers’ responses to advertising. Based on the crossmodal correspondence phenomenon, this study aimed to elucidate the role played by voice pitch/taste correspondences in advertising effectiveness. Participants listened to voiceover advertisements (at a high or low pitch) for three food products with distinct tastes (sweet, sour, and bitter) and rated their buying intention (an indicator of advertising effectiveness). The results show that the participants were likely to exhibit greater buying intention toward both sweet and sour food when they listened to high-pitched (vs. low-pitched) voiceover advertisements. The effects for sweet food occurred when the vocal pitch was considerably high (Studies 2 and 3), but not when pitch was only moderately high (Study 1). The influence of high pitch on sour food preferences was somewhat inconsistent. These findings emphasize the role that voice pitch/taste correspondence plays in preference formation, and advance the applicability of crossmodal correspondences to business.

scholarly journals Speaking with a Happy Voice Makes You Sound Younger

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Sumi Shigeno
Keyword(s):  
Chronological Age ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Vocal Pitch ◽  
Gender Based

<p>This study investigates the effects of emotional voices (expressing neutral emotion, sadness, and happiness) on a judgement of a speaker’s age. An experiment was conducted to explore whether happy voices sound younger than neutral and sad voices. The identification of 24 speakers’ ages (12 of each gender) based on their emotional voices was done by 40 participants. The speakers’ ages were 24-75 years. Participants identified the age of each speaker only by hearing his/her emotional voice. The results showed that when a speaker spoke with a happy voice, participants estimated their age to be younger than their chronological age. Furthermore, the results regarding female happy voices were more conspicuous than male happy voices. In contrast, when a speaker spoke with a sad voice, participants estimated them to be older. The results suggest that a happy voice sounds younger because of its higher voice pitch (<em>F0</em>). We discussed the role of vocal pitch and other paralinguistic factors for providing an aging impression.</p>

scholarly journals Functional role of delta and theta band oscillations for auditory feedback processing during vocal pitch motor control

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roozbeh Behroozmand ◽  
Nadine Ibrahim ◽  
Oleg Korzyukov ◽  
Donald A. Robin ◽  
Charles R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Theta Band ◽  
Feedback Processing ◽  
Vocal Pitch

scholarly journals The Role of Auditory Feedback at Vocalization Onset and Mid-Utterance

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichole E. Scheerer ◽  
Jeffery A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback

The role of error-correction procedures in the reinforcement of errors

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy K. Magee ◽  
Janet Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Error Correction ◽  
Error Correction Procedures

scholarly journals Shared mechanisms of auditory and non-auditory vocal learning in the songbird brain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McGregor ◽  
Abigail Grassler ◽  
Paul I. Jaffe ◽  
Amanda Louise Jacob ◽  
Michael Brainard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Basal Ganglia ◽  
General Principle ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Sensory Feedback ◽  
Vocal Learning ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
Auditory Information ◽  
Vocal Plasticity

Songbirds and humans share the ability to adaptively modify their vocalizations based on sensory feedback. Prior studies have focused primarily on the role that auditory feedback plays in shaping vocal output throughout life. In contrast, it is unclear whether and how non-auditory information drives vocal plasticity. Here, we first used a reinforcement learning paradigm to establish that non-auditory feedback can drive vocal learning in adult songbirds. We then assessed the role of a songbird basal ganglia-thalamocortical pathway critical to auditory vocal learning in this novel form of vocal plasticity. We found that both this circuit and its dopaminergic inputs are necessary for non-auditory vocal learning, demonstrating that this pathway is not specialized exclusively for auditory-driven vocal learning. The ability of this circuit to use both auditory and non-auditory information to guide vocal learning may reflect a general principle for the neural systems that support vocal plasticity across species.

scholarly journals ERP correlates of pitch error detection in complex Tone and Voice auditory feedback with missing fundamental

2012 ◽  
Vol 1448 ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roozbeh Behroozmand ◽  
Oleg Korzyukov ◽  
Charles R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Error Detection ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Complex Tone ◽  
Pitch Error ◽  
Missing Fundamental

Stutter and phenomena: The phenomenology and deconstruction of delayed auditory feedback

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Roshaya Rodness
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
The Self ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Delayed Auditory Feedback ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Internal Division

Jacques Derrida’s early critique of Husserlian phenomenology discusses the production of the ‘phenomenological voice’ as the consummate model of human consciousness. Challenging Husserl’s conviction that consciousness is produced from the self-enclosed act of ‘hearing-oneself-speak’, Derrida points to vocality as the complex site of the self’s relationship to presence and exteriority. The internal division between hearing and speaking, he argues, introduces difference into the generation of conscious life. The use of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) as a prosthetic for stuttering provides an opportunity to engage Derrida’s insights on the connection between consciousness and voice with an ear to the speech of people who stutter. DAF, which may reduce or increase dysfluency depending on the speech of the user, introduces a series of delays, alterations and supplements to speech that underwrite the heterogeneous experience of conscious life. What can the philosophy of deconstruction add to conversations about the function of DAF, and what can theory about and experiences with DAF teach us about the self’s presence to itself and the role of alterity in shaping speech? What does stuttering teach us about the necessity of dysfluency for all speech? This article examines the relation between the voice and the phenomenological voice, and between stuttering and prosthetics. Concluding with an analysis of Richard Serra’s experimental recording, Boomerang (1974), it argues that voice is always already prostheticized with alterity, and that in hearing-oneself-speak we exist with voice in an expansive and unfinished conversation with our own mystery.

scholarly journals The Adjustment of Anterior Forebrain Pathway (AFP) to Birdsong Is Phased during Song Learning and Maintenance

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jie Zang ◽  
Shenquan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Basal Ganglia ◽  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Specific Effect ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Exact Role ◽  
Anterior Forebrain Pathway ◽  
Anterior Forebrain ◽  
Song Production ◽  
Two Phases

Anterior forebrain pathway (AFP), a basal ganglia-dorsal forebrain circuit, significantly impacts birdsong, specifically in juvenile or deaf birds. Despite many physiological experiments supporting AFP’s role in song production, the mechanism underlying it remains poorly understood. Using a computational model of the anterior forebrain pathway and song premotor pathway, we examined the dynamic process and exact role of AFP during song learning and distorted auditory feedback (DAF). Our simulation suggests that AFP can adjust the premotor pathway structure and syllables based on its delayed input to the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA). It is also indicated that the adjustment to the synaptic conductance in the song premotor pathway has two phases: normal phases where the adjustment decreases with an increasing number of trials and abnormal phases where the adjustment remains stable or even increases. These two phases alternate and impel a specific effect on birdsong based on AFP’s specific structures, which may be associated with auditory feedback. Furthermore, our model captured some characteristics shown in birdsong experiments, such as similarities in pitch, intensity, and duration to real birds and the highly abnormal features of syllables during DAF.

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