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Science 16 December 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3755, pp. 1467 - 1468
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3755.1467
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Feedback of Speech Muscle Activity during Silent Reading: Rapid Extinction

Curtis D. Hardyck 1, Lewis F. Petrinovich 1, and Delbert W. Ellsworth 1

1 Institute of Human Learning,University of California, Berkeley

Surface electromyograms of the laryngeal muscles were made while subjects read silently. Those who showed an increase in electrical activity over that at relaxation were provided with auditory feedback of the muscle activity.This treatment resulted in immediate and long-lasting cessation of the subvocalazation. This method should prove valuable in treating some reading problems.


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