04 May 2004

David Feinberg (University of St Andrews)

By manipulating fundamental and formant frequencies independently in real voices, we can apply experimental paradigms to vocal attractiveness. Here we find that in general females prefer masculinised male voices, and prefer them more at the late follicular (most fertile) phase of the menstrual cycle. Implications of these findings are that vocal attractiveness has a biological basis.

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