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The poor helping the rich: How can incomplete representations monitor complete ones?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2013

Kristof Strijkers ,
Elin Runnqvist ,
Albert Costa  and
Phillip Holcomb
Kristof Strijkers
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS and Université d'Aix-Marseille, 13331 Marseille, France. [email protected]
Elin Runnqvist
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08035, Spain. [email protected]
Albert Costa
Affiliation:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Center for Brain and Cognition, ICREA, Barcelona 08018, Spain. [email protected]
Phillip Holcomb
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. [email protected]
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Abstract

Pickering & Garrod (P&G) propose that inner speech monitoring is subserved by predictions stemming from fast forward modeling. In this commentary, we question this alignment of language prediction with the inner speech monitor. We wonder how the speech monitor can function so efficiently if it is based on incomplete representations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 374 - 375
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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