SEX DIFFERENCES IN CHILD SPEECH: McCARTHY REVISITED

Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Revisited

In paradigms where participants state their ideal romantic partner preferences or examine vignettes and photographs, men value physical attractiveness more than women, and women value earning prospects more than men. Yet it remains unclear if these preferences remain sex-differentiated in predicting desire for real-life potential partners (i.e., individuals whom one has actually met). The prese...

Predictability and adult-child cue weighting differences in speech perception

In this experiment, we tested the hypothesis that adult-child differences in cue weighting are influenced by adult-child differences in knowledge of (a) the relative predictability of wordinitial vs. word-final consonants, and (b) of the relationship between predictability and acoustic salience/distinctiveness. We tested our hypothesis using synthetic speech continua with formant transitions va...

Sex Differences in the Discrimination of Non-Native Speech Sounds

This study examined sex differences in the discrimination of minimal pairs of foreign language (non-native) tonemes. Adult native speakers of English (237 women and 177 men), with no prior exposure to a tonal language, performed an AXtask, which required them to discriminate between rising and falling-rising Norwegian tonemes. When controlling for nonverbal intelligence, prior exposure to forei...

John McCarthy

John McCarthy, considerado como uno de los padres de la Inteligencia Artificial, es hijo de padre católico irlandés y madre judía lituana. Ingresó en el Caltech (Instituto Tecnológico de California) a los 16 años, de donde fue expulsado por negarse a seguir las clases de educación física, pero años después fue admitido de nuevo como veterano de guerra. Se licenció en matemáticas en 1948, despué...

sex differences in acute myocardial infarction