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Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology

A growing amount of research has shown associations between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and physiological conditions related to reproductive advantage. This paper presented a review of the literature on the relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and sex hormones, body size, and phy...

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Autores principales: Chen, Shitao, Han, Chengyang, Wang, Shuai, Liu, Xuanwen, Wang, Bin, Wei, Ran, Lei, Xue
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9680725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36425833
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983688
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author Chen, Shitao
Han, Chengyang
Wang, Shuai
Liu, Xuanwen
Wang, Bin
Wei, Ran
Lei, Xue
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description A growing amount of research has shown associations between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and physiological conditions related to reproductive advantage. This paper presented a review of the literature on the relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and sex hormones, body size, and physique. Those physiological conditions are important in reproductive success and mate selection. Regarding sex hormones, there are associations between sex-specific hormones and sexually dimorphic vocal traits; about body size, formant frequencies are more reliable predictors of human body size than pitch/fundamental frequency; with regard to the physique, there is a possible but still controversial association between human voice and strength and combat power, while pitch is more often used as a signal of aggressive intent in conflict. Future research should consider demographic, cross-cultural, cognitive interaction, and emotional motivation influences, in order to more accurately assess the relationship between voice and physiology. Moreover, neurological studies were recommended to gain a deeper understanding of the evolutionary origins and adaptive functions of voice modulation.
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spelling pubmed-96807252022-11-23 Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology Chen, Shitao Han, Chengyang Wang, Shuai Liu, Xuanwen Wang, Bin Wei, Ran Lei, Xue Front Psychol Psychology A growing amount of research has shown associations between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and physiological conditions related to reproductive advantage. This paper presented a review of the literature on the relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and sex hormones, body size, and physique. Those physiological conditions are important in reproductive success and mate selection. Regarding sex hormones, there are associations between sex-specific hormones and sexually dimorphic vocal traits; about body size, formant frequencies are more reliable predictors of human body size than pitch/fundamental frequency; with regard to the physique, there is a possible but still controversial association between human voice and strength and combat power, while pitch is more often used as a signal of aggressive intent in conflict. Future research should consider demographic, cross-cultural, cognitive interaction, and emotional motivation influences, in order to more accurately assess the relationship between voice and physiology. Moreover, neurological studies were recommended to gain a deeper understanding of the evolutionary origins and adaptive functions of voice modulation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9680725/ /pubmed/36425833 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983688 Text en Copyright © 2022 Chen, Han, Wang, Liu, Wang, Wei and Lei. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Chen, Shitao
Han, Chengyang
Wang, Shuai
Liu, Xuanwen
Wang, Bin
Wei, Ran
Lei, Xue
Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title_full Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title_fullStr Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title_full_unstemmed Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title_short Hearing the physical condition: The relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
title_sort hearing the physical condition: the relationship between sexually dimorphic vocal traits and underlying physiology
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9680725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36425833
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983688
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