Drifting pitch awareness after exposure to altered auditory feedback
(2022) In Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics 84(6). p.2027-2039- Abstract
Various studies have claimed that the sense of agency is based on a comparison between an internal estimate of an action’s outcome and sensory feedback. With respect to speech, this presumes that speakers have a stable prearticulatory representation of their own speech. However, recent research suggests that the sense of agency is flexible and thus in some contexts we may feel like we produced speech that was not actually produced by us. The current study tested whether the estimated pitch of one’s articulation (termed pitch awareness) is affected by manipulated auditory feedback. In four experiments, 56 participants produced isolated vowels while being exposed to pitch-shifted auditory feedback. After every vocalization, participants... (More)
Various studies have claimed that the sense of agency is based on a comparison between an internal estimate of an action’s outcome and sensory feedback. With respect to speech, this presumes that speakers have a stable prearticulatory representation of their own speech. However, recent research suggests that the sense of agency is flexible and thus in some contexts we may feel like we produced speech that was not actually produced by us. The current study tested whether the estimated pitch of one’s articulation (termed pitch awareness) is affected by manipulated auditory feedback. In four experiments, 56 participants produced isolated vowels while being exposed to pitch-shifted auditory feedback. After every vocalization, participants indicated whether they thought the feedback was higher or lower than their actual production. After exposure to a block of high-pitched auditory feedback (+500 cents pitch shift), participants were more likely to label subsequent auditory feedback as “lower than my actual production,” suggesting that prolonged exposure to high-pitched auditory feedback led to a drift in participants’ pitch awareness. The opposite pattern was found after exposure to a constant −500 cents pitch shift. This suggests that pitch awareness is not solely based on a prearticulatory representation of intended speech or on a sensory prediction, but also on sensory feedback. We propose that this drift in pitch awareness could be indicative of a sense of agency over the pitch-shifted auditory feedback in the exposure block. If so, this suggests that the sense of agency over vocal output is flexible.
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- Franken, Matthias K. ; Hartsuiker, Robert J. ; Johansson, Petter LU ; Hall, Lars LU and Lind, Andreas LU
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- Motor control, Speech perception, Speech production
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- Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
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- 84
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- 6
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- 2027 - 2039
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- Springer
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- scopus:85123956637
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- 1943-3921
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- 10.3758/s13414-022-02441-2
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- English
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author = {{Franken, Matthias K. and Hartsuiker, Robert J. and Johansson, Petter and Hall, Lars and Lind, Andreas}},
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title = {{Drifting pitch awareness after exposure to altered auditory feedback}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02441-2}},
doi = {{10.3758/s13414-022-02441-2}},
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