Judgment of correspondence between faces and voices: Are they the same person's?

Yuji Itoh, Hiroshi Takayama, Junko Hibiya, and Shigeru Watanabe
(Keio Univ.)

In this study, we examined intersubject agreement of the judgment whether a face and a voice were of the same person's or not. In Experiment 1, we presented photographs of six male models and their voices, and asked to make six pairs of a face and a voice that they thought as the same person's. In Experiment 2, subjects judged whether each of the 36 pairs of a face and a voice was obtained from the same person or not on seven-point scales. These two experiments revealed that the subjects judgment agreed considerably although some idiosyncrasy was suggested. In Experiment 3, subjects judged 12 traits such as masculinity and soberness of each of the six faces and the six voices. Results of Experiment 2 and 3 showed that differences in the trait judgment correlate with judgments on the face-voice matching. Common mechanisms underlying both judgment are suggested.