title: Autistic Traits are Linked to Individual Differences in Familiar Voice Identification.
abstract: Autistic traits vary across the general population, and are linked with face recognition ability. Here we investigated potential links between autistic traits and voice recognition ability for personally familiar voices in a group of 30 listeners (15 female, 16-19 years) from the same local school. Autistic traits (particularly those related to communication and social interaction) were negatively correlated with voice recognition, such that more autistic traits were associated with fewer familiar voices identified and less ability to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar voices. In addition, our results suggest enhanced accessibility of personal semantic information in women compared to men. Overall, this study establishes a detailed pattern of relationships between voice identification performance and autistic traits in the general population.
authors.affiliation: Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743, Jena, Germany. verena.g.skuk@gmail.de.|DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743, Jena, Germany. verena.g.skuk@gmail.de.|Department of Otolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, 07743, Jena, Germany. verena.g.skuk@gmail.de.
authors.forename: Verena G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Skuk
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, and School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.|Social Potential in Autism Research Unit, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Leutragraben 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Romina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Palermo
authors.affiliation: Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Broemer
authors.affiliation: Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743, Jena, Germany.|DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743, Jena, Germany.|Social Potential in Autism Research Unit, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Leutragraben 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Schweinberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014831:Voice
keywords: Autistic traits; Gender differences; Individual differences; Own-gender-bias.; Recognition; Voice