The motor theory of speech perception revisited

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Abstract

Galantucci, Fowler, and Turvey (2006) have claimed that perceiving speech is perceiving gestures and that the motor system is recruited for perceiving speech. We make the counter argument that perceiving speech is not perceiving gestures, that the motor system is not recruited for perceiving speech, and that speech perception can be adequately described by a prototypical pattern recognition model, the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP). Empirical evidence taken as support for gesture and motor theory is reconsidered in more detail and in the framework of the FLMP. Additional theoretical and logical arguments are made to challenge gesture and motor theory. Copyright 2008 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Massaro, D. W., & Chen, T. H. (2008, April). The motor theory of speech perception revisited. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.2.453

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