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Laboratory research has established that face recognition memory performance for own-race faces is better than for other-race faces. Three studies are reported exploring the possibility that the other-race effect will generalize to voice recognition memory. Recognition memory performance for non-native American speakers speaking both English and their native languages was compared with memory for native American speakers. With relatively long speech samples, accented voices were no more difficult to recognize than were unaccented voices; reducing the speech sample duration decreased recognition memory for accented and unaccented voices, but the reduction was greater for accented voices.
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Goldstein, A. G., Knight, P., Bailis, K., & Conover, J. The auditory analog of the other-race effect: They all look alike, but do they all sound alike? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Missouri, November 13, 1980.
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Portions of the article were read at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 13,1980, in St. Louis, Missouri. The authors are grateful to June Chance for her critical reading of earlier drafts of this paper.
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Goldstein, A.G., Knight, P., Bailis, K. et al. Recognition memory for accented and unaccented voices. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 17, 217–220 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333718
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