The voice in your head is a lie. What you hear when you open your mouth is distinctly less velvety than what everyone around hears—and it's your skull that's to blame. More specifically, it's the way your skull vibrates. 我们脑海中的声音是一个谎言,当你说话时,你听到的声音不如周围人听到的那么柔和,而这一切都要怪罪于你的头骨。更确切地说,是你头骨震动的模式。 Your voice emanates from from the lower portion of your throat, as expelled air from the lungs passes across your vocal chords, which vibrate to generate sound. This sound is then amplified by your voice box, modulated into words by your tongue and lips, and reverberated through the surrounding atmosphere until it enters your listener's ear canal to stimulate their eardrums and structures within the inner ear—which then convert the analog waveform to electrical impulses that the brain can understand. 我们的声音源于喉咙的下部,从肺部呼出的气体经过声带振动发声,接下来通过喉头放大,经由舌头和嘴唇组织成句,经由周围空气传播进入听者的耳道,刺激鼓膜和内二结构,从而将模拟波形转化为大脑能理解的电脉冲。 However, the inner ear doesn't just pick up sound from external sources. Vibrations emanating from within your body can activate these auditory structures as well. And when you speak, the rapid fluttering of your vocal chords actually causes your entire braincase to vibrate."When you speak, the vocal folds in your throat vibrate, which causes your skin, skull and oral cavities to also vibrate, and we perceive this as sound," Ben Hornsby, a professor of audiology at Vanderbilt University said. |