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Inner speech slips exhibit lexical bias, but not the phonemic similarity effect.

01 Jan 2008-Cognition (Elsevier)-Vol. 106, Iss: 1, pp 528-537
TL;DR: While lexical bias was present in both inner and overt speech errors, the phonemic similarity effect was evident only for overt errors, producing a significant overtness by similarity interaction.
About: This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 153 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Speech production & Phonetics.
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TL;DR: It is asserted that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people to predict themselves and each other.
Abstract: Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people to predict themselves and each other. We start by noting that production and comprehension are forms of action and action perception. We then consider the evidence for interweaving in action, action perception, and joint action, and explain such evidence in terms of prediction. Specifically, we assume that actors construct forward models of their actions before they execute those actions, and that perceivers of others' actions covertly imitate those actions, then construct forward models of those actions. We use these accounts of action, action perception, and joint action to develop accounts of production, comprehension, and interactive language. Importantly, they incorporate well-defined levels of linguistic representation (such as semantics, syntax, and phonology). We show (a) how speakers and comprehenders use covert imitation and forward modeling to make predictions at these levels of representation, (b) how they interweave production and comprehension processes, and (c) how they use these predictions to monitor the upcoming utterances. We show how these accounts explain a range of behavioral and neuroscientific data on language processing and discuss some of the implications of our proposal.

1,046 citations


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  • ...Some evidence suggests that inner speech may be impoverished (Oppenheim & Dell 2008; 2010; though cf. Corley et al. 2011)....

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10 Feb 2011-Neuron
TL;DR: An integrative model of the speech-related "dorsal stream" in which sensorimotor interaction primarily supports speech production, in the form of a state feedback control architecture, and evidence shows that this influence is modulatory but not necessary for speech perception.

676 citations


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  • ...…(Decety and Michel, 1989), and research on imagined speech suggests that it shares properties with real speech, for example subjects report inner ‘‘slips of the tongue’’ that show a lexical bias (slips tend to form words rather than nonwords) just as in overt speech (Oppenheim and Dell, 2008)....

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TL;DR: The goal of this article is to integrate psycholinguistic and motor control approaches to speech production into a neuroanatomically grounded, hierarchical state feedback control model of speech production.
Abstract: The study of speech production has largely been divided into investigations of lower-level articulatory motor control and of higher-level linguistic processing, with these research traditions rarely interacting. In this Opinion article, Hickok argues that these approaches have much to offer each other, and he presents a model of speech production that incorporates ideas from both research traditions and findings from neuroscientific studies of sensorimotor integration. Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions, psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the resulting chasm between these approaches seems to reflect a level of analysis difference: whereas motor control is concerned with lower-level articulatory control, psycholinguistics focuses on higher-level linguistic processing. However, closer examination of both approaches reveals a substantial convergence of ideas. The goal of this article is to integrate psycholinguistic and motor control approaches to speech production. The result of this synthesis is a neuroanatomically grounded, hierarchical state feedback control model of speech production.

658 citations

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TL;DR: The paradigm provides information about the way language users integrate linguistic information with information derived from the visual environment and is well suited to study one of the key issues of current cognitive psychology, namely the interplay between linguistic and visual information processing.

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TL;DR: A multicomponent model of the phenomenon informed by developmental, cognitive, and psycholinguistic considerations is presented, which appears to perform significant functions in human cognition, which in some cases reflect its developmental origins and its sharing of resources with other cognitive processes.
Abstract: Inner speech—also known as covert speech or verbal thinking—has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body of knowledge on its phenomenology, development, and function, approaches to the scientific study of inner speech have remained diffuse and largely unintegrated. This review examines prominent theoretical approaches to inner speech and methodological challenges in its study, before reviewing current evidence on inner speech in children and adults from both typical and atypical populations. We conclude by considering prospects for an integrated cognitive science of inner speech, and present a multicomponent model of the phenomenon informed by developmental, cognitive, and psycholinguistic considerations. Despite its variability among individuals and across the life span, inner speech appears to perform significant functions in human cognition, which in some cases reflect its developmental origins and its sharing of resources with other cognitive processes.

410 citations

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TL;DR: This chapter demonstrates the functional importance of dopamine to working memory function in several ways and demonstrates that a network of brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, is critical for the active maintenance of internal representations.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the modern notion of short-term memory, called working memory. Working memory refers to the temporary maintenance of information that was just experienced or just retrieved from long-term memory but no longer exists in the external environment. These internal representations are short-lived, but can be maintained for longer periods of time through active rehearsal strategies, and can be subjected to various operations that manipulate the information in such a way that makes it useful for goal-directed behavior. Working memory is a system that is critically important in cognition and seems necessary in the course of performing many other cognitive functions, such as reasoning, language comprehension, planning, and spatial processing. This chapter demonstrates the functional importance of dopamine to working memory function in several ways. Elucidation of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human working memory is an important focus of cognitive neuroscience and neurology for much of the past decade. One conclusion that arises from research is that working memory, a faculty that enables temporary storage and manipulation of information in the service of behavioral goals, can be viewed as neither a unitary, nor a dedicated system. Data from numerous neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies in animals and humans demonstrates that a network of brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, is critical for the active maintenance of internal representations.

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TL;DR: An ideal text for an upper-level undergraduate or first-year graduate course, Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Second Edition is also an invaluable source for professionals who want to keep abreast of the latest developments within this dynamic branch of modern statistics.
Abstract: This Second Edition of Myles Hollander and Douglas A. Wolfe's successful Nonparametric Statistical Methods meets the needs of a new generation of users, with completely up-to-date coverage of this important statistical area. Like its predecessor, the revised edition, along with its companion ftp site, aims to equip readers with the conceptual and technical skills necessary to select and apply the appropriate procedures for a given situation. An extensive array of examples drawn from actual experiments illustrates clearly how to use nonparametric approaches to handle one- or two-sample location and dispersion problems, dichotomous data, and one-way and two-way layout problems. An ideal text for an upper-level undergraduate or first-year graduate course, Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Second Edition is also an invaluable source for professionals who want to keep abreast of the latest developments within this dynamic branch of modern statistics.

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  • ...We hear the speech in our mind, though, through an inner loop that transmits the speech plan at the phonetic (e.g. Levelt, 1983, 1989) and/or phonological (e.g. Wheeldon & Levelt, 1995) level to the speech comprehension system....

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  • ...Inner speech is planned exactly as normal speech, except that the articulators are not moved (e.g. Dell, 1978; Levelt, 1989)....

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  • ...We should note that our claim of surface-impoverishment may not hold true for the sort of inner speech that Levelt (1989) describes as the basis for monitoring in overt speech production....

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  • ...We should note that our claim of surface-impoverishment may not hold true for the sort of inner speech that Levelt (1989) describes as the basis for monitoring in overt speech production....

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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In this article, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech.
Abstract: In Speaking, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech. Speaking is unique in its balanced coverage of all major aspects of the production of speech, in the completeness of its treatment of the entire speech process, and in its strategy of exemplifying rather than formalizing theoretical issues.

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