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648The Motor Theory of Speech PerceptionIn Matthew Nudds & Casey O'Callaghan (eds.), Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press. 2009.There is a long‐standing project in psychology the goal of which is to explain our ability to perceive speech. The project is motivated by evidence that seems to indicate that the cognitive processing to which speech sounds are subjected is somehow different from the normal processing employed in hearing. The Motor Theory of speech perception was proposed in the 1960s as an attempt to explain this specialness. The first part of this essay is concerned with the Motor Theory's explanandum. It sho…Read more
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37Review of Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, Johannes Roessler (eds), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds -- Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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