Is imagining a voice like listening to it? Evidence from ERPs

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 182; pp. 227 - 241
• Main Authors: Zhou, Peiyun, Garnsey, Susan, Christianson, Kiel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.01.2019; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory perception; Auditory perceptual simulation; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Electroencephalography; English language; Event-related potentials; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Female; Grammatical agreement; Grammatical subject; Grammaticality; Humans; Imagination - physiology; Listeners; Listening; Male; Mental simulation; Multilingualism; Nonnative speakers; Novels; P600; Reading; Sentence processing; Simulation; Speech; Speech perception; Speech Perception - physiology; Speeches; Subject-verb disagreement; Verbs; Voice; Voices; Young Adult; Sentence processing; Event-related potentials; P600; Auditory perceptual simulation; Grammaticality; Subject-verb disagreement

•Imaging a speaker’s voice during silent reading is similar to listening to speech.•Imagining a native speaker’s voice when reading silently elicits similar ERP effects as normal silent reading.•Imagining a non-native speaker’s voice reduces N400 and P600 when processing ungrammatical sentences.•Rea...