title: The Glasgow Voice Memory Test: Assessing the ability to memorize and recognize unfamiliar voices.
abstract: One thousand one hundred and twenty subjects as well as a developmental phonagnosic subject (KH) along with age-matched controls performed the Glasgow Voice Memory Test, which assesses the ability to encode and immediately recognize, through an old/new judgment, both unfamiliar voices (delivered as vowels, making language requirements minimal) and bell sounds. The inclusion of non-vocal stimuli allows the detection of significant dissociations between the two categories (vocal vs. non-vocal stimuli). The distributions of accuracy and sensitivity scores (d') reflected a wide range of individual differences in voice recognition performance in the population. As expected, KH showed a dissociation between the recognition of voices and bell sounds, her performance being significantly poorer than matched controls for voices but not for bells. By providing normative data of a large sample and by testing a developmental phonagnosic subject, we demonstrated that the Glasgow Voice Memory Test, available online and accessible from all over the world, can be a valid screening tool (~5 min) for a preliminary detection of potential cases of phonagnosia and of "super recognizers" for voices.
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France. virginia.aglieri@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aglieri
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.|Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: Cyril
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pernet
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France.|Unité Mixte de recherche UMR Inserm U930, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Latinus
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UK.
authors.forename: Lúcia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garrido
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France.|Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Belin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000175:diagnosis; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013016:Sound; D014831:Voice; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Developmental disorders; Individual differences; Phonagnosia; Voice recognition