Listener estimations of talker age: A meta-analysis of the literature

Eric J. Hunter; Sarah Hargus Ferguson; Catherine Anne Newman

doi:10.3109/14015439.2015.1009160

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Listener estimations of talker age: A meta-analysis of the literature

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Listener estimations of talker age: A meta-analysis of the literature

Eric J. Hunter, Sarah Hargus Ferguson and Catherine Anne Newman

Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology, Vol.41(3), pp.101-105

07/02/2016

DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2015.1009160

PMCID: PMC4757506

PMID: 26079468

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Abstract

Numerous studies, most of them cross-sectional studies using one sample per talker, have demonstrated that listeners make relatively accurate age judgments from hearing talkers' voices. The current study analyzed the results of several such direct age estimation studies to characterize better the perception of talker age over a larger number of individuals. A review of the direct age estimation literature was performed. Data sets from seven papers were reconstituted, and an analysis of the combined data (meta-analysis) including 530 data points was conducted. The reconstituted and combined data included talkers aged 10-90. Listeners appeared to overestimate age when talkers were younger and to underestimate it when talkers were older.

Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology

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Title: Subtitle: Listener estimations of talker age: A meta-analysis of the literature
Creators: Eric J. Hunter - Michigan State University
Sarah Hargus Ferguson - University of Utah
Catherine Anne Newman - University of Utah
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology, Vol.41(3), pp.101-105
DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2015.1009160
PMID: 26079468
PMCID: PMC4757506
NLM abbreviation: Logoped Phoniatr Vocol
ISSN: 1401-5439
eISSN: 1651-2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Number of pages: 5
Grant note: R01DC012315 / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) R01DC012315 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Language: English
Date published: 07/02/2016
Academic Unit: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Record Identifier: 9984446068802771

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