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The ideomotor recycling theory for language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2016

Arnaud Badets
Arnaud Badets*
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CNRS, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine (UMR 5287), Université de Bordeaux, France. arnaud.badets@u-bordeaux.fr http://www.incia.u-bordeaux1.fr/spip.php?article255
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Abstract

For language acquisition and processing, the ideomotor theory predicts that the comprehension and the production of language are functionally based on their expected perceptual effects (i.e., linguistic events). This anticipative mechanism is central for action–perception behaviors in human and nonhuman animals, but a recent ideomotor recycling theory has emphasized a language account throughout an evolutionary perspective.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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