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dben29775 t1_iw35z7j wrote

Reply to comment by reallynotburner in New psychology research finds people feel more attached to gendered technology by nikan69

Don’t make brains perceive female voices in the same way they perceive music? I remember seeing that awhile back, probably even on this subreddit.

Edit: This is the article and this is the study I was referring to

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EVOSexyBeast t1_iw37p6v wrote

All brains perceive all voices similar to music, as they are going through the ear and being processed in the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe.

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GalacticShonen t1_iw3b72c wrote

That last link is still just an article about a study, where is the actual paper? It doesn't make any mention of music. They only tested 12 people, and they were all men? That's a very small and not diverse sample size. They mention melody in quotes to describe the tonal variance between male and female voices but that is not what melody means. It's hard to say exactly what the author meant when i can't find the actual published paper making me question if it was peer reviewed to begin with.

And to clear up any confusion, music and language have overlapping cognitive resources as music is suggested to be a precursor form of communication for our species.

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T0WERM0NKEY t1_iw4fs1z wrote

You mean higher pitched voices that people generally attach the female gender label to?

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dben29775 t1_iwrum7y wrote

I can’t make that distinction because I didn’t do the study, but I would assume it’s related to register, yeah.

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