Information associated with the self is prioritized relative to information associated with others and is therefore processed more quickly and accurately. Across three experiments, we examined whether a new externally-generated voice could become associated with the self and thus be prioritized in perception. In the first experiment, participants learned associations between three unfamiliar voices and three identities (self, friend, stranger). Participants then made speeded judgements of whether voice-identity pairs were correctly matched, or not. A clear self-prioritization effect was found, with participants showing quicker and more accurate responses to the newly self-associated voice relative to either the friend- or stranger- voice. In two further experiments, we tested whether this prioritization effect increased if the self-voice was gender-matched to the identity of the participant (Experiment 2) or if the self-voice was chosen by the participant (Experiment 3). Gender-matching did not significantly influence prioritization; the self-voice was similarly prioritized when it matched the gender identity of the listener as when it did not. However, we observed that choosing the self-voice did interact with prioritization (Experiment 3); the self-voice became more prominent, via lesser prioritization of the other identities, when the self-voice was chosen relative to when it was not. Our findings have implications for the design and selection of individuated synthetic voices used for assistive communication devices, suggesting that agency in choosing a new vocal identity may modulate the distinctiveness of that voice relative to others.

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自我关联声音的感知优先级

与自己相关的信息优先于与他人相关的信息，因此处理得更快更准确。在三个实验中，我们检查了一种新的外部生成的声音是否可以与自我相关联，从而在感知中被优先考虑。在第一个实验中，参与者学习了三种陌生声音和三种身份（自己、朋友、陌生人）之间的关联。然后，参与者快速判断语音-身份对是否正确匹配。发现了一个明显的自我优先效应，参与者对新的自我关联的声音相对于朋友或陌生人的声音表现出更快、更准确的反应。在另外两个实验中，我们测试了如果自我声音与参与者的身份性别匹配（实验 2）或者如果自我声音是由参与者选择的（实验 3），这种优先排序效应是否会增加。性别匹配对优先排序没有显着影响；当自我声音与听者的性别认同相匹配时，与不匹配时，它同样被优先考虑。然而，我们观察到选择自我声音确实与优先级相互作用（实验 3）；通过对其他身份的优先级较低，当自我声音被选择时，自我声音变得更加突出。我们的发现对用于辅助通信设备的个性化合成声音的设计和选择具有影响，