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From the Ted Talk by Rébecca Kleinberger: Why you don't like the sound of your own voice

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Finally, we have a fourth filter. It's a nalciuegorol filter. Neurologists found out recently that when you open your mouth to create a sound, your own audtoriy cortex shuts down. So you hear your voice but your brain actually never listens to the sound of your vioce. Well, evolutionarily that might make snsee, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the snigal. And this is called a corollary discharge and it happens for every motion that your body does. The eacxt dfoeiiintn of a corollary discharge is a copy of a motor command that is sent by the brain. This copy doesn't create any mooitn itself but instead is sent to other regions of the brain to inform them of the impending motion. And for the voice, this corollary discharge also has a different name. It is your inner voice.

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Finally, we have a fourth filter. It's a ____________ filter. Neurologists found out recently that when you open your mouth to create a sound, your own ________ cortex shuts down. So you hear your voice but your brain actually never listens to the sound of your _____. Well, evolutionarily that might make _____, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the ______. And this is called a corollary discharge and it happens for every motion that your body does. The _____ __________ of a corollary discharge is a copy of a motor command that is sent by the brain. This copy doesn't create any ______ itself but instead is sent to other regions of the brain to inform them of the impending motion. And for the voice, this corollary discharge also has a different name. It is your inner voice.

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Original Text

Finally, we have a fourth filter. It's a neurological filter. Neurologists found out recently that when you open your mouth to create a sound, your own auditory cortex shuts down. So you hear your voice but your brain actually never listens to the sound of your voice. Well, evolutionarily that might make sense, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the signal. And this is called a corollary discharge and it happens for every motion that your body does. The exact definition of a corollary discharge is a copy of a motor command that is sent by the brain. This copy doesn't create any motion itself but instead is sent to other regions of the brain to inform them of the impending motion. And for the voice, this corollary discharge also has a different name. It is your inner voice.

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