Search for the cat alone; only the cat's closest people should be involved
because unfamiliar voices and smells will send him into deeper hiding.
One morning, she hears
unfamiliar voices in the next room, and on a walk she encounters a mysterious man who seems to be from another time... Eva concludes she has traveled back 300 years.
In one, patients listened to familiar and
unfamiliar voices telling the same story they heard at baseline (a short joke about a man buying ice - cream and getting a pickle with it.)
As infants, they arch their backs, flex their limbs and cry when exposed to strange, moving mobiles, or tape recordings
of unfamiliar voices.
At last I locate the phone and hear
an unfamiliar voice.
In one experiment on 4 - month - old infants, Peter Kaplan and his colleagues found that babies could learn to associate a photograph of an unfamiliar, smiling face with
an unfamiliar voice speaking baby talk (Kaplan et al 2002).
The MRI image showed a change in the oxygen level, indicating greater responsiveness to
the unfamiliar voice telling a story.
And in life, to a ball darting in front of a car, or
an unfamiliar voice in a crowded room.
Middle - aged adults seemed to be relatively adept at following
the unfamiliar voice, especially when it was masked by their spouse's voice — that is, they were better at understanding the unfamiliar voice when it was masked by their spouse's voice compared to when it was masked by another unfamiliar voice.
Participants tended to be much more accurate on the task when they had to listen to their spouse's voice compared to
an unfamiliar voice matched on both age and sex — they perceived their spouse's voice more clearly.
But when participants were asked to report
the unfamiliar voice, age - related differences emerged.
On some trials, participants were told to report what their spouse said; on other trials, they were supposed to report what
the unfamiliar voice said.
«The middle - aged adults were able to use what they knew about the familiar voice to perceptually separate and ignore it, so as to hear
the unfamiliar voice better,» Johnsrude explains.
Later, each participant put on a pair of headphones and listened to the recording of his or her spouse as it played simultaneously with a recording of
an unfamiliar voice.
While this may make it more difficult for older adults to pick out
an unfamiliar voice, it has an interesting consequence: The relative benefit of having a familiar voice as the target actually increases with age.
But performance on these trials declined as the participants went up in age — the older the participant was, the less able he or she was to report correctly what
the unfamiliar voice was saying.
To my son, I kept hearing myself say in a very high pitched,
unfamiliar voice, «Your footlocker is cool because it's vintage.
The film's first trailer just dropped, and it is delicate and charming in the best way - a familiar story told in
unfamiliar voices.
She heard a faint familiar sound, the knock of the broken gate against the post at the bottom of the garden; and then
an unfamiliar voice, with an edge to it, and then George's laugh.