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Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: shadowstar on August 10, 2005, 04:28:03 PM

link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainsciencehearing;_ylt=AnwSWeq4vl8NVqktj30IQewDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)

Sat Aug 6, 7:29 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.
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The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine

NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."

The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: ushi on August 10, 2005, 04:49:39 PM

I'm sorry, arian...

did you say something?

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: TheQuickening on August 10, 2005, 09:07:40 PM

Who said what about who now???  :P  :P  :P

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: StreakInTheSky on August 11, 2005, 02:41:18 AM

Huh?

Don't be mad, I'm a guy. :wink:

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: suki* on August 11, 2005, 02:48:23 AM

Wonderful... Our men now have legit reason to turn a deaf ear on us now... tsk tsk...  :wink:

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: ebc on August 11, 2005, 04:13:40 AM

I'd much prefer listening to a girls voice over any male voice though.

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: Asmodai on August 11, 2005, 04:18:05 AM

Yeah. I remember hearing that phone companies and the like use female voices because they're more clearly understood too.  :?


Maybe it just depends on what you're saying...

Title: Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find
Post by: shadowstar on August 11, 2005, 05:54:56 AM

Quote from: Nasuknust

I'm sorry, arian...

did you say something?

see, I was just waiting for a guy to say that!  :lol: