Vainio , L , Tiippana , K , Tiainen , M , Rantala , A & Vainio , M 2018 , ' Reaching and grasping with the tongue : Shared motor planning between hand actions and articulatory gestures ' , The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , vol. 71 , no. 10 , pp. 2129-2141 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817738732
Title: | Reaching and grasping with the tongue : Shared motor planning between hand actions and articulatory gestures |
Author: | Vainio, Lari; Tiippana, Kaisa; Tiainen, Mikko; Rantala, Aleksi; Vainio, Martti |
Contributor organization: | Department of Psychology and Logopedics Medicum Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind Perception Action Cognition Phonetics Doctoral Programme in Language Studies Phonetics and Speech Synthesis Department of Digital Humanities |
Date: | 2018-10 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 13 |
Belongs to series: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817738732 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311362 |
Abstract: | Research has shown connections between articulatory mouth actions and manual actions. This study investigates whether forward-backward hand movements could be associated with vowel production processes that programme tongue fronting/backing, lip rounding/spreading (Experiment 1), and/or consonant production processes that programme tongue tip and tongue dorsum actions (Experiment 2). The participants had to perform either forward or backward hand movement and simultaneously pronounce different vowels or consonants. The results revealed a response benefit, measured in vocal and manual reaction times, when the responses consisted of front vowels and forward hand movements. Conversely, back vowels were associated with backward hand movements. Articulation of rounded versus unrounded vowels or coronal versus dorsal consonants did not produce the effect. In contrast, when the manual responses of forward-backward hand movements were replaced by precision and power grip responses, the coronal consonants [t] and [r] were associated with the precision grip, whereas the dorsal consonant [k] was associated with the power grip. We propose that the movements of the tongue body, operating mainly for vowel production, share the directional action planning processes with the hand movements. Conversely, the tongue articulators related to tongue tip and dorsum movements, operating mainly for consonant production, share the action planning processes with the precision and power grip, respectively. |
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hand movements articulation language evolution behavioural study PARIETAL CORTEX FUNCTIONAL-ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT ARM COORDINATION CONSTRAINTS DIRECTION LANGUAGE SPEECH MOUTH 6162 Cognitive science 6161 Phonetics 515 Psychology |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
Self-archived version: | acceptedVersion |
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