女性更易记住声音低沉的男性

　　Men who sound like singer Barry White or actor James Earl Jones can get ahead in the mating game because women remember a deep male voice, scientists have revealed.

　　据英国《每日邮报》9月13日报道，科学家称，拥有像歌手巴里 怀特或演员詹姆斯 厄尔 琼斯一样嗓音的男性更易在追求异性的竞技中占领优势地位，因为女性会对男性的低沉嗓音记忆深刻。

　　Scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have proved for the first time that a low masculine voice is important to the accuracy of women's memory and subsequent choice of mate. Women are very sensitive to the pitch of a voice and will remember a deep voice above higher tones.

　　英国苏格兰阿伯丁大学的科学家们首次证实，男性的低沉嗓音会对女性记忆的准确性及对随后女性选择配偶产生重要影响。女性对音高非常敏感，她们对低音比对高音的印象更加深刻。

　　The pitch of a voice is also very important to women looking for a long-term partner. When they come to evaluate potential partners, they use it to assess genetic quality as well as behavioral traits such as antisocial behavior and lack of emotional warmth.

　　音高在女性寻找长期伴侣时也非常重要。在考虑潜在伴侣时，女性会通过（男性的）音高来评估他们的基因质量和行为特征，例如确定男性是否会做出与社会格格不入的行为、是否缺乏温情。

　　In the first experiment, 45 women were initially shown an image of a single object while listening to the name of the object spoken either by a high or low pitch male or female manipulated voice.

　　在第一个试验中，研究人员首先将一件物品的图像展示给45名女性，并让她们听由男女高低音读出物品名称时的声音。

　　They were then shown two similar but not identical versions of the object and asked to identify the one they had seen earlier. The women were also asked which voice they preferred.

　　然后，研究人员给她们出示两件相似但不完全相同的物品，并询问她们最先看到的是哪一件物品。研究人员还对女性更青睐哪种声音进行了调查。

　　In the second experiment, the researchers used real male and female voices to test how 46 new women rated the voices and how they scored on object memory.

　　在第二个实验中，研究人员分别利用男性和女性的真实声音对另外46名女性进行了实验，让她们对各种声音和对物品的印象程度进行评估。

　　In both cases, the authors found that women had a strong preference for the low pitch male voice and remembered objects more accurately when they have been introduced by the deep male voice.

　　在两个试验中，研究人员都发现，男性的低沉嗓音更受女性青睐。倘若一件物品是由一个男低音介绍的，那么女性对这件物品的记忆就更准确。

　　Lead researcher Dr David Smith concludes: "Our findings demonstrate that women's memory is enhanced by lower pitch male voices, compared with the less attractive raised pitch male voices."

　　负责该研究的大卫 史密斯总结说：“我们的发现证明，与男高音相比，男低音更能让女性记忆深刻。”

　　The research is published in Springer's journal, Memory and Cognition.

　　该研究发表在《施普林格记忆与认知》期刊上。