Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition

Linjun Zhang; Hua Shu; Yang Zhang

doi:10.1121/10.0001804

Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition

Linjun Zhang, Hua Shu, Yang Zhang

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

6 Scopus citations

Abstract

The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	EL208-EL213
Journal	Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume	148
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001804
State	Published - Aug 1 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the Social Science Fund of Beijing (Grant No. 17YYA004), the Discipline Team Support Program (Grant No. JC201901) and the Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (Grant No. 18PT09) to L.J.Z.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Acoustical Society of America.

Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PubMed: MeSH publication types

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Access

10.1121/10.0001804

OpenUrl availability

Full text

Cite this

@article{5dcb65ae89e742ab9f716ef381bc7481,

title = "Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition",

abstract = "The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.",

author = "Linjun Zhang and Hua Shu and Yang Zhang",

note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by grants from the Social Science Fund of Beijing (Grant No. 17YYA004), the Discipline Team Support Program (Grant No. JC201901) and the Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (Grant No. 18PT09) to L.J.Z. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Acoustical Society of America. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",

year = "2020",

month = aug,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1121/10.0001804",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "148",

pages = "EL208--EL213",

journal = "Journal of the Acoustical Society of America",

issn = "0001-4966",

publisher = "Acoustical Society of America",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition

AU - Zhang, Linjun

AU - Shu, Hua

AU - Zhang, Yang

N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by grants from the Social Science Fund of Beijing (Grant No. 17YYA004), the Discipline Team Support Program (Grant No. JC201901) and the Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (Grant No. 18PT09) to L.J.Z. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Acoustical Society of America. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2020/8/1

Y1 - 2020/8/1

N2 - The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.

AB - The current study examined whether the blind are superior to sighted listeners in voice recognition. Three subject groups, including 17 congenitally blind, 18 late blind, and 18 sighted, showed no significant differences in the immediate voice recognition test. In the delayed test conducted two weeks later, however, both congenitally blind and late blind groups performed better than the sighted with no significant difference between the two blind groups. These results partly confirmed the anecdotal observation about the blind's superiority in voice recognition, which resides mainly in delayed memory phase but not in immediate recall and generalization phase.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090181441&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85090181441&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1121/10.0001804

DO - 10.1121/10.0001804

M3 - Article

C2 - 32873006

AN - SCOPUS:85090181441

SN - 0001-4966

VL - 148

SP - EL208-EL213

JO - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

IS - 2

ER -

Superiority of blind over sighted listeners in voice recognition

Abstract

Bibliographical note

PubMed: MeSH publication types

Access

OpenUrl availability

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this