Auditory imagery: A review and challenges ahead.

• This article is a review of the research on auditory imagery during the last three decades. The purpose is to present and summarize the central findings. The research field of auditory imagery is related to research on visual imagery and it is also very close to the field of auditory perception. Though a lot has been done since the 1970s it is still a fairly small field of research, which is a little strange, since both speech and music are central to most of our lives. Relevant research can be found in psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science, which means that today it is possible to get a relatively broad understanding of the phenomenon of auditory imagery. The findings reveal where in the brain auditory perception and auditory imagery probably are processed and show us what areas are common to these processes. They also tell us something about the character of auditory images, and their relationship to working memory. Three major fields will be presented in the review: (1) auditory imagery and environmental sounds, (2) musical imagery, and (3) inner speech (or speech imagery) and subvocalization. The review ends with a discussion and some suggestions for future research that needs to be done.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

auditory cortex

SMA

Heschls gyrus

STG

musical imagery

speech imagery

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