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Fig. 3

From: Sex stereotypes influence adults’ perception of babies’ cries

Fig. 3

Pitch-dependent attribution of baby’s sex by adult listeners. a Dots represent the sex attributed by adults participants (25 men and 27 women) listening to natural cries of unfamiliar babies (14 boys and 11 girls) with different pitch profiles (x-axis: baby’s mean F0, averaged over 6 cries; y-axis: baby’s estimated sex attribution; fitted line: marginal mean ± SE). Boxplots represent the average sex attribution given by adult listeners (11 men and 21 women) to each of five mean pitch re-synthesis variants (x-axis: mean F0 variants = 310, 375, 440, 505 and 570 Hz; y-axis: pitch variant’s estimated marginal mean sex attribution). b Examples of re-synthesised variants from the same cry exemplar. Only the pitch is affected by the PSOLA algorithm used for re-synthesis (Additional file 2)

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