26dga227 10.3205/26dga227 urn:nbn:de:0183-26dga2277 Meeting Abstract Zäske Zäske Romi R

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jena, Deutschland University Hospital Jena, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena, Deutschland Voice Research Unit, Jena, Deutschland

author Gärtner Gärtner Lisa L

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jena, Deutschland

author Heyder Heyder Toni B. TB

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jena, Deutschland

author Schweinberger Schweinberger Stefan R. SR

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jena, Deutschland Voice Research Unit, Jena, Deutschland German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Site Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Deutschland University of Geneva, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Schweiz

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260302 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0642 227 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie e. V. 28. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Audiologie Postersession Oldenburg 20260304 20260306 227 TextStudy rationale: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often impaired in the learning and identification of others by face and voice. However, familiar (famous) voices may be an exception, with some evidence for similar identification rates in ASD and neurotypical participants. To further investigate the issue, we developed the Jena Famous Voices Test (JFVT; ), a 15 min screening tool with voice samples of 30 German celebrities. The JFVT comes in two parallel versions for which appropriate celebrities are selected relative to a target population, and provides identification performance scores that are corrected for person knowledge (i.e., proportion of voices identified relative to proportion of persons known). We compared identification performance for famous voices across 83 healthy listeners with a low to high autism-spectrum quotient (AQ, Study 1), as well as across 24 listeners with and without an ASD diagnosis (Study 2). To test for voice learning abilities, we further employed the Jena Voice Learning and Memory Test (JVLMT; ) to assess unfamiliar voice memory, and for comparison with face processing abilities, we used two analogous identification and learning tests from the face domain (J-BFFT-2022; CFMT).Results: In Study 1, no correlations (all rs < .13; all ps > .20) were observed between autistic traits (AQ) in the general population and performance in person identification and learning tests, neither for voices nor for faces. Parallelism of the two JFVT versions was verified by non-significant differences in identification performance (p > .05). In Study 2, we found significant impairments in the ASD group compared to controls across all tests (p < .001), with no interactions with test type.Conclusions: First, the JFVT is an economical and adaptable new tool to assess voice identification abilities for famous speakers, complementing other tests on high-level auditory perception. Second, general impairments of voice recognition in ASD, both for famous and for trained-to-familiar voices, argue against relatively preserved familiar voice identification abilities in ASD for people scoring highly on the autism spectrum, as in individuals with an ASD diagnosis, but not in the general population. Gärtner L 2024 Personenerkennung anhand von Gesicht und Stimme bei Menschen mit und ohne Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen [masterthesis] Gärtner L. Personenerkennung anhand von Gesicht und Stimme bei Menschen mit und ohne Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen [masterthesis]. Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; 2024. Humble D Schweinberger SR Mayer A Jesgarzewsky TL Dobel C Zäske R The Jena Voice Learning and Memory Test (JVLMT): A standardized tool for assessing the ability to learn and recognize voices 2023 Behav Res Methods 1352-1371 Humble D, Schweinberger SR, Mayer A, Jesgarzewsky TL, Dobel C, Zäske R. The Jena Voice Learning and Memory Test (JVLMT): A standardized tool for assessing the ability to learn and recognize voices. Behav Res Methods. 2023 Apr;55(3):1352-1371. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01818-3 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01818-3 0 0 0 0