Sensations are Related in the Brain

Production of speech is seen as a pure motor act, involving muscles and the neurons controlling them, while perception of speech is seen as purely sensory, involving the ear and the auditory pathway. This parcellation of the systems appear intuitive and clear, but recent studies [beginning with Taine 1870!] ... suggest that such divisions may be fundamentally wrong. Rather than separate processes for motor outputs and individual sensory modalities, adaptive action seems to use all the available context-specific information. That is, neural representations across the brain may be centered on specific actions. This view on neural representations puts 'Molyneux's Problem' in a new light. Unisensory signals are fused into multisensory motor representations unified by an action, but since Molyneux does not suggest any action, his 'problem' may be better viewed as an ill-posed question -- at least from a neuroscientific perspective".

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Speaking involves not just motor functions in the brain, but auditory, suggesting sensory inputs for the brain are not segregated.

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Speech production: How does a word feel?

Periodicals>Journal Article: Ghazanfar, A. A. and Turesson, H. K. (2008), Speech production: How does a word feel? , Current Biology, 18,24: R1142-1144, Retrieved on 2013-04-27

Folksonomies: cognition

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Molyneux's problem > Contrast > Sensations are Related in the Brain
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Folksonomies: philosophy experience sensation

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Folksonomies: parenting child rearing