Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation.

Tian, Xing; Poeppel, David

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00314

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Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation.

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Tian, Xing, Poeppel, David·2012·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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The neural basis of mental imagery has been investigated by localizing the underlying neural networks, mostly in motor and perceptual systems, separately. However, how modality-specific representations are top-down induced and how the action and perception systems interact in the context of mental imagery is not well understood. Imagined speech production ("articulation imagery"), which induces the kinesthetic feeling of articulator movement and its auditory consequences, provides a new angle because of the concurrent involvement of motor and perceptual systems. On the basis of previous findings in mental imagery of speech, we argue for the following regarding the induction mechanisms of mental imagery and the interaction between motor and perceptual systems: (1) Two distinct top-down mechanisms, memory retrieval and motor simulation, exist to induce estimation in perceptual systems. (2) Motor simulation is sufficient to internally induce the representation of perceptual changes that would be caused by actual movement (perceptual associations); however, this simulation process only has modulatory effects on the perception of external stimuli, which critically depends on context and task demands. Considering the proposed simulation-estimation processes as common mechanisms for interaction between motor and perceptual systems, we outline how mental imagery (of speech) relates to perception and production, and how these hypothesized mechanisms might underpin certain neural disorders.

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In inner speech, the sense of agency is derived from the comparison between desired and predicted signals.
“In Rapin et al. (2013) and Lœvenbruck et al. (2018), it was argued that, in inner speech, the sense of agency is derived from the comparison between desired and predicted signals (see also Tian and Poeppel, 2012 and Swiney and Sousa, 2014).”
From The ConDialInt Model: Condensation, Dialogality, and Intentionality Dimensions of Inner Speech Within a Hierarchical Predictive Control Framework (2019) · cites this paper as Tian and Poeppel, 2012
In “Auditory hallucinations: intact estimation versus broken monitoring” (page unavailable), the paper links internal prediction and source monitoring to identifying perceptual signals as self-generated. But it does not say that the sense of agency in inner speech derives from comparing desired and predicted signals. “Mental imagery of speech as sequential estimation” instead describes comparing auditory predictions with auditory feedback for self-monitoring. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology
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“…elements of imagined speech involve the deployment of a somatosensory forward model (i.e., not just a sensory simulation), and serve to prime auditory areas to recognise a given response (a top-down effect), rather than habituate them to an old response (a bottom-up effect; Tian & Poeppel, 2012).”
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Prediction and constraint in audiovisual speech perception
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Decoding spectrotemporal features of overt and covert speech from the human cortex
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Mental imagery of speech implicates two mechanisms of perceptual reactivation.
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The effect of imagination on stimulation: the functional specificity of efference copies in speech processing
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The coupling between auditory and motor cortices is rate-restricted: Evidence for an intrinsic speech-motor rhythm
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Decoding Covert Speech From EEG-A Comprehensive Review
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“However, the existence of an IFM may be inferred based on how the production of inner speech suppresses the brain’s electrophysiological response to overt speech (Tian and Poeppel, 2010; Tian and Poeppel, 2015; Tian and Poeppel, 2013; Tian and Poeppel, 2012).”
The ConDialInt Model: Condensation, Dialogality, and Intentionality Dimensions of Inner Speech Within a Hierarchical Predictive Control Framework
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A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts
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Corollary Discharge Provides the Sensory Content of Inner Speech
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Temporal dynamics of sensorimotor integration in speech perception and production: independent component analysis of EEG data
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Dynamics of self-monitoring and error detection in speech production: evidence from mental imagery and MEG
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The Application of EEG Mu Rhythm Measures to Neurophysiological Research in Stuttering
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Inner speech captures the perception of external speech
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Neural Correlates of Music Listening and Recall in the Human Brain
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Imagined speech influences perceived loudness of sound
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The nested hierarchy of overt, mouthed, and imagined speech activity evident in intracranial recordings
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The Relative Contribution of High-Gamma Linguistic Processing Stages of Word Production, and Motor Imagery of Articulation in Class Separability of Covert Speech Tasks in EEG Data
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Corollary Discharge Versus Efference Copy: Distinct Neural Signals in Speech Preparation Differentially Modulate Auditory Responses
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Is this my voice or yours? The role of emotion and acoustic quality in self-other voice discrimination in schizophrenia
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The brain basis of audiovisual affective processing: Evidence from a coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis
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Inner Speech in Aphasia: Current Evidence, Clinical Implications, and Future Directions
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Neural representations of imagined speech revealed by frequency-tagged magnetoencephalography responses
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A voice without a mouth no more: The neurobiology of language and consciousness
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A new comparator account of auditory verbal hallucinations: how motor prediction can plausibly contribute to the sense of agency for inner speech
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Real and imagined sensory feedback have comparable effects on action anticipation
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Cortical activity during cued picture naming predicts individual differences in stuttering frequency
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How Do You Feel the Rhythm: Dynamic Motor-Auditory Interactions Are Involved in the Imagination of Hierarchical Timing
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The dynamic and task-dependent representational transformation between the motor and sensory systems during speech production
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Phonological working memory in developmental stuttering: Potential insights from the neurobiology of language and cognition
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Power and phase coherence in sensorimotor mu and temporal lobe alpha components during covert and overt syllable production
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The Emergence of Inner Speech and Its Measurement in Atypically Developing Children
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Mental operations in rhythm: Motor-to-sensory transformation mediates imagined singing
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Continuous theta burst stimulation over left and right supramarginal gyri demonstrates their involvement in auditory feedback control of vocal production
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Some Methodological and Conceptual Considerations in Studies of Auditory Imagery
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Imagined speech increases the hemodynamic response and functional connectivity of the dorsal motor cortex
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Decoding Hearing-Related Changes in Older Adults’ Spatiotemporal Neural Processing of Speech Using Machine Learning
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Aging and Sex Influence Cortical Auditory-Motor Integration for Speech Control
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The Illusion of Conscious Thought
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Bilateral human laryngeal motor cortex in perceptual decision of lexical tone and voicing of consonant
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Classification of Phonological Categories in Imagined Speech using Phase Synchronization Measure
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The Role of Motor Inhibition During Covert Speech Production
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Distinct Mechanisms of Imagery Differentially Influence Speech Perception
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Neural tracking of speech mental imagery during rhythmic inner counting
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The functional relations among motor-based prediction, sensory goals and feedback in learning non-native speech sounds: Evidence from adult Mandarin Chinese speakers with an auditory feedback masking paradigm
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A comparison and classification of oscillatory characteristics in speech perception and covert speech
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Authors: Tian, X., & Poeppel, D.
Affiliations: New York University (US)
Corresponding author: Tian, Xing
ORCID: Tian, Xing
Poeppel, David
Venue: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2012
Volume: 6
Pages: 314-314
ISSN: 1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00314
PMC: PMC3508402
OpenAlex: W2104745961
Cited by: 161
References: 131
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 6
FWCI: 11.10
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
Locations: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders: National Institutes of Health
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC005660)
Army Research Office (54228-LS-MUR)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Keywords: mental imagery, motor simulation, top-down modulation, memory retrieval, auditory perception, kinesthetic perception, speech production, neurological disorders

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