The motor theory of speech perception reviewed

By Bruno Galantucci, Carol A. Fowler, Michael T. Turvey. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Sensorimotor Integration in Speech Processing: Computational Basis and Neural Organization (2011, neutral): “…perception must be to recover the invariant motor gestures that produce speech sounds rather than to decode the acoustic patterns themselves; however, no mechanism was proposed to explain how the gestures were recovered (for a recent discussion see Galantucci et al., 2006; Massaro and Chen, 2008).”
Audio-visual integration of emotional cues in song (2008, background): “Moreover, speech researchers have investigated and discussed motor theories for more than 50 years ( Galantucci, Fowler, & Turvey, 2006; Lane, 1965; Liberman & Mattingly, 1985; Scott & Johnsrude, 2003).”
Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension (2008, neutral): “2; see Galantucci, Fowler, & Turvey, 2006 , for a recent review).”
Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches (2010, background): “Similar ideas were suggested in speech recognition [50,77].”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, background): “Specifically, Galantucci, Fowler, and Turvey (2006) reviewed several decades of studies based on the motor theory and found support only for a weak version.”
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, background): “Indeed, a group of theories has postulated that action mechanisms are important in speech perceptio”
Chunking in Music by Coarticulation (2010, background): “Initially, the idea of strong links between perception and action in listening was suggested several decades ago in linguistics by the so-called motor theory of perception (Liberman & Mattingly 1985, Galantucci et al. 2006).”
The Perception-for-Action-Control Theory (PACT): A perceptuo-motor theory of speech perception. (2012, background): “Recent reviews of the Motor Theory (e.g. Galantucci, Fowler, & Turvey, 2006; Liberman & Whalen, 2000) recapitulate the major experimental arguments in favour of the Motor Theory (or its variant, the Direct Realist Theory of speech perception, Fowler, 1986).”
Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans (2009, background): “…abilities of Broca’s aphasics—for instance, a recent review of the motor theory of speech perception failed to even mention the syndrome (Galantucci et al., 2006)—it is more often noted by motor theorists that Broca’s aphasics can be impaired on syllable discrimination tasks, i.e.,…”
Computational neuroanatomy of speech production (2012, background): “In response, variants of the model have been proposed in which the objects of speech perception are more abstract gestural goals 120,125 , but this idea is functionally indistinguishable from an auditory theory that assumes that the goals of speech gestures are sensory states.”
Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication (2010, background): “During communication, we expect significant production/comprehension couplings to occur if speakers use their comprehension system to produce speech, and listeners use their production system to process the incoming auditory signal (3, 13, 14).”
Dynamics of Active Sensing and Perceptual Selection (2010, neutral): “One possibility, in line with the Motor Theory of Speech Perception, is that ‘covert’ oscillatory influences from motor cortex entrain rhythmic activity in auditory cortex; however, several observations, including the fact that motor cortical destruction produces minimal comprehension impairment [53”
Analysis by Synthesis: A (Re-)Emerging Program of Research for Language and Vision (2010, background): “The emerging theory was (Liberman et al. 1967) and for a long time has been (for review, see e.g., Galantucci et al. 2006), the ‘motor theory of speech perception’ (a perspective that continues to receive a lot of attention in the cognitive neuroscience literature, for better or for worse, and…”
The role of mirror neurons in speech perception and action word semantics (2010, methodology): “…while there is evidence favouring the view that there is a tight connection between speech perception and speech production (Doupe & Kuhl, 1999; Galantucci et al., 2006; Hickok & Poeppel, 2007), there is no evidence in support of a strong version of the motor theory of speech perception and…”