What is it that creates the sound in your head when you think to yourself?
Like when you read this question in your head.
What part of the brain listens and understands the thought?
What creates it? (dont say your brain=)
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Interesting question, and I've no idea what the answer is.
I'm not sure I hear "my" voice, as I read. I definitely hear my "style" of speech and reading, but "my" voice...hm! Couldn't say whose/what voice it is, but it's female.
I'll keep tabs on it, now!
i think its the mad cow in me heheheh soz
thats really weird, im listening to myself in my head as i type this. Its freaking me out! :) lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezvbkjdke...
Hey, im glad you asked this question. Its a bit freaky isnt it. Im hearing my own voice on my head right now as im reading your question. In fact, im always talking to myself in my head.
Dont you think the human body is a wonderful piece of creation?? It may be vibrations in the throat that causes it. I really dont know for sure, but i would love to find out the answer to this!
its almost like a florescent light that humms. okay, its working now. i was told in kindergarten to read to yourself in your mind. i think it is somehow related to the conscious part of your mind.
other animals think in pictures not words. and as for the "sound" it is your mind reflecting what you read in a manner that you will understand. for example: you are reading this right now, the way you have been tought is is the way you understand the signs on the page, so therefor you brain reflects the words you read into words themselves, and obviosly you cant read a sentence that is writen in your mind.
cute question. I also wonder about it sometimes. The voice in my head sounds more like a feminine TV character, maybe a child or someone I saw on TV when I was a kid. I think the voice is your way of relating to the voices you heard when you were a child. Thanx 4 making me think about it.
What I find even stranger is that I can change the "mind voice" just by willing it. (For example, if I want the words to come out in my friend's voice - presto! They do!) But if I'm not specifically wishing for another voice, the default is kind of like my own.
You should read the very good books How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker
The central thinking part. It seems like sound, but not actually.
Well, the ear takes sound waves and converts them into electrical signals which pass along the auditory nerves to the auditory processing centre of the brain.
When you read to yourself, the brain is simply recreating the electrical signals in the auditory processing centre and bypassing the ears altogether.
A similar phenomenon happens when you close your eyes and imagine something in your mind's eye. It's just the brain generating electrical impulses that get translated by the optical processing centre of your brain as visual stimuli.
As I read through the questions, I first heard my own voice but then I deliberately chose to hear Patrick Stewart's voice and then Amanda Burton... and it worked.
But it's just phantom electrical signals being generated and the brain simply processes them.
Damn good question. Where does the sound come from?
I often wonder where the hell this comes from. Is thought independent from speech? Is it a real voice?
When i think thoughts with a voice in my head, where does the voice come from? How confusing is this?
back again it is self explained moo moo moo
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