What Is the Sound of Thought?
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What Is the Sound of Thought?
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#2> Remarkably, we found that the shape of the electric waves recorded in a non-acoustic area of the brain when linguistic expressions are being read silently preserves the same structure as those of the mechanical sound waves of air that would have been produced if those words had actually been uttered
the Rosetta stone idea to map thought from languages waves (sound and light) is an interesting field of research
I have no idea how but since I was young I learned that I can read faster when I don't "voice" out the sound of thought
I also learned that as a multilingual person the "language" of choice for my thought can be different at times, even though I have no actual fondness of using any specifically
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#3> Remarkably, we found that the shape of the electric waves recorded in a non-acoustic area of the brain when linguistic expressions are being read silently preserves the same structure as those of the mechanical sound waves of air that would have been produced if those words had actually been uttered the Rosetta stone idea to map thought from languages waves (sound and light) is an interesting field of research I ha…
The obvious follow up experiment is to have the subjects read silently first, then read aloud.
(I've also found I can readily manipulate algebraic symbols without having any idea of how they should be pronounced. splodge?)
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#4> Remarkably, we found that the shape of the electric waves recorded in a non-acoustic area of the brain when linguistic expressions are being read silently preserves the same structure as those of the mechanical sound waves of air that would have been produced if those words had actually been uttered the Rosetta stone idea to map thought from languages waves (sound and light) is an interesting field of research I ha…
For me, some words and phrases sound better in one language than the other. So in my internal monologue, I often flip back and forth between Polish and English, sometimes multiple times in a single sentence. It feels like "the path of least resistance".
I also do that sometimes when talking, when I know the other person is proficient in English. Not everyone appreciates this, but some of the best conversations in my life were with a particular person who was like me in this regard; we'd just stream our thoughts to each other in this weird mix of Polish and English, that was hard to follow for anyone else.
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#5> Remarkably, we found that the shape of the electric waves recorded in a non-acoustic area of the brain when linguistic expressions are being read silently preserves the same structure as those of the mechanical sound waves of air that would have been produced if those words had actually been uttered the Rosetta stone idea to map thought from languages waves (sound and light) is an interesting field of research I ha…
> I have no idea how but since I was young I learned that I can read faster when I don't "voice" out the sound of thought
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#6I assume the reason for this is that speech is encoded as an internal meaning and the visible text is also encoded as meaning. When the circuit for the internal meaning fires up then the rest of the circuits are sympathetically fired as well. It also makes me assume that's why PTSD is a thing - some trigger hits the specific circuit that causes the rest of the stress response. With PTSD the process is debilitating, but in the normal course of life the process makes retrieval of information and the expression of appropriate actions easier.
Neat. I'm not a scientist and I could be very wrong however.
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#7Show me data, the signals. Except for maybe short pauses between phonological clusters, I need extraordinary proof to accept such extraordinary claims.
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#8The article contains no examples of the "sound of thought". Epic fail.
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#9When I'm in the zone, thought sounds like a jet turbine "ffffffffffff", or being underwater. Sight stops working, or at least I don't remember what I saw during these moments. Also hearing seems to stop working, at least for outside sounds.
If I'm facing a screen, it is practically I see and I hear nothing.
If I get interrupted when I'm in that kind of trance, as in someone getting in my view starting to make signs, or poking me, I need a few moments to regain the ability to speak.
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#10Fail