Attack of the clones: A preregistered study about ignoring one’s own voice
Mon—Casino_1.801—Poster1—1709
Presented by: Stefanie Christina Richthofer
Our own voice is a very special stimulus. It is an important part of our representation in the world and a key communication tool and of all the sounds we hear in our everyday lives, it belongs to those that we encounter most often. Self-relevant stimuli such as our own name are known for their particularly high attention-grabbing potential, but it is unclear whether this is in fact due to their self-relevance or the strong call for action that is associated with hearing our own name. On this pre-data poster, we introduce a study plan for comparing the disruptive effect of one's own voice to that of another person's voice to investigate whether a self-relevant stimulus without a strong call for action still has the capacity to capture our attention. We will use a classic serial recall paradigm with three auditory conditions: (1) A quiet control condition, (2) an own voice condition, in which participants listen to an artificially generated clone of their own voice, and (3) an other voice condition, where participants listen to the voice of their yoked-control partner. If we observe an own voice effect, we will also explore whether it habituates and is modulated by recognition or resemblance. We look forward to seeing you at our poster and discussing the planned project with you.
Keywords: auditory distraction, selective attention, working memory, self-reference, own voice