讲座：Inner voice experience in silent reading of direct versus indirect speech
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2016-09
李小俚老师课题组邀请了英国曼彻斯特大学-姚博老师来实验室做学术报告，欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加。以下为报告信息：
报告题目：Inner voice experience in silent reading of direct versus indirect speech
报告人：姚博博士，曼彻斯特大学
报告时间: 09月27日(周二), 上午10:30
报告地点：英东楼422会议室
Abstract：In verbal communication, direct speech (e.g., Mary said: “I love this dress!”) provides vivid depictions of the reported speaker’s voice whereas indirect speech (e.g., Mary said [that] she loved that dress) provides mere descriptions of what was said. In silent reading, however, the representational consequences of this vividness distinction remain unclear. Although many of us share the intuition of an “inner voice”, particularly during silent reading of direct speech quotations, there has been little empirical confirmation of this experience so far. Using speech analysis, brain imaging and eye tracking, we show that readers (with normal hearing) spontaneously engage in mental simulations of audible-speech like representations (or to hear an “inner voice”) during silent reading of direct speech, and to a much lesser extent during silent reading of indirect speech. Such an “inner voice” experience promotes low relative-clause attachment in English, suggesting that it may share a common cognitive basis with default implicit prosody in silent reading. The implications of our results are discussed in relation to grounded cognition, the implicit prosody hypothesis and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs).
