Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production.

By Kate E. Watkins, Antonio P. Strafella, Tomás Paus. Neuropsychologia, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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How do forward models work? And why would you want them? (2013, neutral): “We have also noted that tongue and lip muscles are activated during listening to speech but not other sounds (Fadiga et al., 2002; Watkins et al., 2003).”
Motor imagery and action observation: cognitive tools for rehabilitation (2007, background): “Also Watkins et al. (2003) showed that the observation of communicative, speech-related mouth movements, facilitated the excitability of the motor system involved in the production of these movements.”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, result): “…motor system during observation of communicative mouth actions is also testified by the results of a transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS) study by Watkins et al. (2003), in which they showed that the observation of silent speech-related lip movements enhanced the size of the motor-evoked…”
Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression (2005, background): “For example, viewing the facial expression or lipspeech of another person produces activation in corresponding facial muscles or facial motor brain region”
Shared networks for auditory and motor processing in professional pianists: Evidence from fMRI conjunction (2006, methodology): “…phenomena are known from the speech literature, where the classical notion of a functional dissociation of speech perception and speech production has recently been adjusted towards a joint sensorimotor representation (Aboitiz and Garcia, 1997; Watkins and Paus, 2004; Watkins et al., 2003).”
Inner Speech is not so Simple: A Commentary on Cho and Wu (2013) (2014, background): “(10)]) was suggested by Bick and Kinsbourne (11), who demonstrated that if people experiencing hallucinations opened their mouths wide, stopping vocalizations, then the majority of AVHs stopped.”
Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders (2019, background): “…symbiotically through a sensorimotor loop relating acoustic perception and articulator movements (Houde and Jordan, 1998; Fadiga et al., 2002; Watkins et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2004; Pulvermüller et al., 2006; Kröger et al., 2009; Bolhuis et al., 2010; Kröger and Cao, 2015; Bekolay,…”
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, background): “Conversely, listening to speech sounds that require strong articulatory activity — especially the rolling 'r' — activates the motor system, as revealed by measuring muscle excitation following magnetic stimulation of the motor corte”
Sensorimotor Integration in Speech Processing: Computational Basis and Neural Organization (2011, neutral): “…explicit motor task, is sufficient to activate (or potentiate) the motor speech system in a highly specific, i.e., somatotopic, fashion (Fadiga et al., 2002; Pulvermü ller et al., 2006; Skipper et al., 2005; Sundara et al., 2001; Watkins and Paus, 2004; Watkins et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2004).”