Rapid reproduction of vowel-vowel sequences: evidence for a fast and direct acoustic-motoric linkage in speech.
Listeners display extremely short latencies when asked to reproduce (shadow), a random series of vowel-vowel sequences. The latency of the shadowing response is as fast or faster than that obtained when the same subjects are asked simply to produce a predetermined vowel-vowel gesture as rapidly as possible. The speed of the shadowing response suggests a fast and direct linkage of the speech-analysis and speech-production mechanisms.
D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*