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Perceiving a Stranger's Voice as Being One's Own: A ‘Rubber Voice’ Illusion?

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Title
Perceiving a Stranger's Voice as Being One's Own: A ‘Rubber Voice’ Illusion?
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PLOS ONE, April 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0018655
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Authors

Zane Z. Zheng, Ewen N. MacDonald, Kevin G. Munhall, Ingrid S. Johnsrude

Abstract

We describe an illusion in which a stranger's voice, when presented as the auditory concomitant of a participant's own speech, is perceived as a modified version of their own voice. When the congruence between utterance and feedback breaks down, the illusion is also broken. Compared to a baseline condition in which participants heard their own voice as feedback, hearing a stranger's voice induced robust changes in the fundamental frequency (F0) of their production. Moreover, the shift in F0 appears to be feedback dependent, since shift patterns depended reliably on the relationship between the participant's own F0 and the stranger-voice F0. The shift in F0 was evident both when the illusion was present and after it was broken, suggesting that auditory feedback from production may be used separately for self-recognition and for vocal motor control. Our findings indicate that self-recognition of voices, like other body attributes, is malleable and context dependent.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 109 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 20%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 8%
Student > Master 8 7%
Other 23 20%
Unknown 18 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 43 37%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 15%
Neuroscience 11 9%
Computer Science 6 5%
Linguistics 4 3%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 18 16%
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