Rubber voice illusion exposed neural correlates of voice perception and vocal adaptation across the continuum of psychosis
Scientific Reports January 8, 2026 Suong Welp, Andrea Hildelbrandt, David A. Magezi et al.
The Rubber Voice Illusion is an auditory analogue of the classic Rubber Hand Illusion, a “mind-trick” for the voice. When speakers hear a stranger’s utterances that are perfectly time‑locked and syllable‑matched to their own voice, many momentarily adopt that alien voice as self‑generated. We used this illusion to probe the integrity of predictive auditory mechanisms across the psychosis...