{"pk":30060,"title":"The One-Voice Expert","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Producing and processing speech involves complex feedbackloops of sensory and motor signals. Vocal sounds are par-tially processed as a movement affordance, allowing us to learnspeaking patterns through imitation, which can be beneficialfor language learning. In this study, we examine this pro-cess as a type of social embodiment illusion — the blurringof boundaries between self and other. Participants performedan altered version of a theatrical game called the ‘one-voiceexpert’, where they improvised speech in same-gender dyads.Unlike previous studies, we looked separately at the effectsof simultaneousness (‘speaking at the same time’) and syn-chronicity (‘saying the same thing’). These two variables werefound to influence vocal characteristics and self-voice recog-nition in a distinct way, with synchronicity leading to strongerpitch adaptation and simultaneousness to suppression of pho-netic convergence. We conclude that linking embodiment pro-cesses to joint speech in real world social interactions could bea promising new conceptual framework, with possible applica-tions for language learning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"voice; speech; social bonding; multisensory inte-gration; phonetic convergence; embodiment; envoicement;"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p37x5mq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lisa","middle_name":"Evelyn","last_name":"Rombout","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Marie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Postma-Nilsenov ́a","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30060/galley/19914/download/"}]}