E.g. Motor Imagery of Speech: The Involvement of Primary Motor Cortex in Manual and Articulatory Motor Imagery https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6579859/
> The results have implications for models of mental imagery of simple > articulatory gestures, in that no evidence is found for somatotopic > activation of lip muscles in sub-phonemic contexts during motor imagery of > such tasks, suggesting that motor simulation of relatively simple actions > does not involve M1. Observation-execution matching and action inhibition in human primary motor cortex during viewing of speech-related lip movements or listening to speech https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393211001801?via%3Dihub > The MEP findings support the notion that observation-execution matching is an > operating process in the putative human MNS that might have been fundamental > for evolution of language. Furthermore, the SICI findings provide evidence > that inhibitory mechanisms are recruited to prevent unwanted overt motor > activation during action observation. On 6/7/20 3:31 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > What's interesting to me is the extent to which one *simulates* actual > talking when sitting quietly formulating thoughts. It's often less about > *what* you want to say and more about how you want to say it to this > audience. When Bob and I are talking, it feels like I have little simulations > running inside me like Could I say it this way? Could I say it that way? Will > that work with Bob? Etc. [†] > > And if I'm right that I'm *simulating* talking as I prepare to talk, then the > only distinguishable difference is which motor functions are engaged when > simulating vs actually talking. (Note I'm not suggesting all internal > dynamics are equivalent to talking. Only that the difference between thinking > "I have a cat" and saying "I have a cat" is vanishingly small, or at least > not as large/distinct most people think it is.) > > [†] This is one of the reasons people who never pause to let others think and > simply fill all the silence with jabber irritate me. Give me a little time to > run some simulations, here! -- ☣ uǝlƃ .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
