sometimes I'm surprised I'm allowed to call myself a neuroscientist
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I was today years old when I learned that 'thinking in your head' is just imperceptible movement of vocal muscleshttps://twitter.com/rakshesha/status/1070099244286119943 …
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but going back to the whole "some people can imagine smells and some people can imagine sights and some can't": if talking in your head is moving a muscle, what is imagining a picture doing?
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Wait, so you should be able to measure that and get a good high-throughput BMI going? I wonder if my thinking speed then may be linked to how fast I'm able to control the muscles.
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@rakshesha are the muscle movements casual for thinking in your head though? If you stuck local anaesthetic in your larynx what effect would it have? -
This warrants a study! Though I suspect the muscle movements are not as important as the efferents (neural commands to move muscles). It would be interesting to see what happened if you could block those.
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Indeed! And you can measure schizophrenics sub-vocal output when they hear voices!
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Me as well
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"hearing" those thoughts would be the result of central motor-auditory interactions not necessarily the muscle movement. Paging
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Or perhaps "incompletely suppressed movement." But now I wonder, does it work in your sleep? Off to pubmed!
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I doubt it precedes thought though? surely this is just mirror neurons firing? like when watching boxing and you throw punches
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