Pronounce this!

Here is an interesting experiment you can do on yourself. I woke this morning and was (for some unknown reason) thinking about thinking. I was wondering which parts of the brain deal with thought. What I mean by this is how could you isolate the parts of the brain that deal with thinking. Pick a word. I was thinking about the word 'Harrow'. Try saying, only in your head the word Harrow. No problem right? Sounds fine. Now put your tongue flat on the bottom of your mouth (tip of tongue pressed against your bottom teeth). Now try and think the word 'Harrow' again.

Stunning. Your mind is unable to pronounce the word in your head (I get hawwow)! I am sure this is a well documented phenomenon but I have not seen it before. If you think about what this means. The thought processes that go on in your head must be directly connected to the speech controls. So you do not think words (cannot) that you cannot say. Your physical limitations of your mouth dictate the thinkable words. What is more worrying is that your mind cannot think a word correctly if it detects ahead of time that it would be prevented from saying it correctly due to the tongue being out of position.

It will take some working out. Your mind is hearing (it seems) what WOULD come out if you were to attempt to say the word, even if the speaking is not actualized. What this means to me is that your mind hears the output of your brain of what would be said if you were to actualize it (i.e. go on to speak it).

Weird.