Also, I wonder how they controlled for confounding factors. The research indicates that our brains react differently to "fake voices." How does it react to real voices played with low quality audio (e.g. through a telephone, or AM radio)? What about natural voices that are "ugly" or odd sounding? Speech impediments? Voices in a big hall with lots of reverberation? What about fake voices in an environment with a lot of background noise?

If they controlled for all that, then cool.

[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think brains are capable of thinking something about something. Brains are used to think something about something. I don’t know, sounds stupid to me too. I think of it like a plane. There’s a computer or a person flying the plane, the plane doesn’t fly itself. Probably would have sounded less stupid, if it said something like „What happens really in our brains, if we think about/hear these mimicry attempts?“

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You are on point with your last sentence.

When something happens and we perceive it, we think of the situation. Yes, yes, technically it's the brain doing the thinking, but our brain is us, not something separate.

So a better phrase would be the one you mentioned. "When we notice this mimicry, our brains activate such and such regions."

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