Using terminology such as “female” and “male” or “feminine” and “masculine” affects how people perceive gender when hearing speech, according to a study from researchers at the Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab (APPL) at NYU.
Previously, it was assumed that all auditory information was equally transmitted via the auditory pathways from the ear to the cerebral cortex. The current recordings of the increased activity of the vMGB show that the processing of the auditory information begins before the auditory pathways reach the cerebral cortex.
We tend to be biased, both in our training and in our technologies we use. We tend to look at things based on spectra or frequencies.
