Haskins Publications

Number	1542
Year	2009
Drawer	27
Entry Date	06/17/2009
Authors	Galantucci, B., Fowler, C.A. & Goldstein, L.
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Publication	Attention, Perception & Psychophysics (2009) v. 5, pp. 1138-1149
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1542.pdf
Abstract	Kerzel and Bekkering (2000) found perceptuomotor compatibility effects between spoken syllables and visible speech gestures and interpreted them as evidence in favor of the distinctive claim of the motor theory of speech perception that the motor system is recruited for perceiving speech. We present three experiments aimed at testing this interpretation. In Experiment 1, we replicated the original findings by Kerzel and Bekkering but with audible syllables. In Experiments 2 and 3, we tested the results of Experiment 1 under more stringent conditions, with different materials and different experimental designs. In all of our experiments, we found the same result: Perceiving syllables affects uttering syllables. The result is consistent both with the results of a number of other behavioral and neural studies related to speech and with more general findings of perceptuomotor interactions. Taken together, these studies provide evidence in support of the motor theory claim that the motor system is recruited for perceiving speech.
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