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The fundamental frequencies of our own voice
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Presented by: Hakam Neamaalkassis
Hakam Neamaalkassis 1, 2, 3*Yves Boubenec 2Christian Fiebach 3R. Muralikrishnan 1Alessandro Tavano 1, 3
1 Department of Cognitive Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, 63122 Frankfurt a. M., Germany, 2 Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France, 3 Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Own actions send a corollary discharge (CD) signal, that is a copy of the planned motor program, to sensory-specific brain areas to suppress the anticipated sensory response (Crapse & Sommer, 2008), providing a neural basis for the sense of self. When we speak, the sensory consequences of the fundamental frequency (f0) of our own voice, generated by vocal fold vibrations, are suppressed. However, due to bone/air conduction filtering effects, the f0 we self-generate is measurably different from the f0 we subjectively perceive as defining our own voice (Kimura & Yotsumoto, 2018). We hypothesised that there exists also a frequency-specific decrease in frequency change resolution while listening, as a byproduct of recurrent, long-term neural suppression in response to self-generated speech. Using pure tones in an auditory change deafness paradigm, we parametrically tested the sensitivity to auditory change in the frequency neighbourhoods of objective and subjective own voice pitches, relative to a control pitch condition. Behavioural results and a mixed-effects model of the data revealed that participants experience change deafness for both subjective and objective pitches to a similar extent, indicating a significantly lower frequency change resolution compared to the control pitch condition. We conclude that also when we listen attentively, we are likely to filter out small pitch changes in the vicinity of our own objective and subjective voice f0, thus preferentially gating in voices that are different from ours.
Keywords: Change deafness, auditory attention, attentive filters, corollary discharge, subjective perception, self-generation