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Speech Science Forum -- Nadine Lavan
24 October 2024, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
Forming first impressions from voices.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Victor Rosi
Location
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Chandler House B012Wakefield StreetLondonWC1N 1PFUnited Kingdom
Listeners very quickly form impressions of a person from their voice: Is someone old or young? Trustworthy or untrustworthy? Do we think they are a nice person? In this talk, I will present behavioural and electrophysiological evidence to examine how these very first impressions from voices are formed. First impressions are formed rapidly, within less than a second of exposure. Impressions of physical characteristics of a person, such as age and gender seem to be formed first, with inferred characteristics, such as trustworthiness or educatedness, following later.
About the Speaker
Nadine Lavan
Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London
Nadine is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, where she also holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. She did her PhD at Royal Holloway between 2013 and 2017 and then worked as a post-doc at Brunel, Royal Holloway, and UCL until joining QMUL in 2020.
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