Is Language Production Planning Emergent From Action Planning? A Preliminary Investigation.

ABSTRACT: The nature of syntactic planning for language production may reflect language-specific processes, but an alternative is that syntactic planning is an example of more domain-general action planning processes. If so, language and non-linguistic action planning should have identifiable commonalities, consistent with an underlying shared system. Action and language research have had little contact, however, and such comparisons are therefore lacking. Here, we address this gap by taking advantage of a striking similarity between two phenomena in language and action production. One is known as syntactic priming-the tendency to re-use a recently produced sentence structure-and the second is hysteresis-the tendency to re-use a previously executed abstract action plan, such as a limb movement. We e

SUBMITTER: Koranda MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7290767 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature