We are pleased to announce that Ana P. Pinheiro, Principal Investigator of the VoicES Lab, has published a new Forum article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences titled “The Developing Vocal Self.”
This article examines how the vocal self emerges through development, focusing on how individuals come to recognise and represent their own voice. It highlights that current models of self‑voice processing explain predictive control and recognition mechanisms, but do not fully account for how vocal signals become integrated into broader self‑representations.
Pinheiro proposes a hierarchical framework in which recursive interactions between sensorimotor predictions, self‑voice representations, and higher‑order self‑representations support the development of the vocal self.
📄 Full Reference: Pinheiro, A. P. (2026). The developing vocal self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Available at:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661326001324?dgcid=author
