Facial attractiveness facilitates voice processing
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The role of visual information in auditory processing was explored using a cross-modal priming task where listeners identified the gender of male and female voice samples after being primed with a same gender face. The faces were previously rated as either attractive or unattractive. A facilitative effect was found for female voices, but not males.
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