| 单词 | motor theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmotor theory motor theory n. Psychology any of various psychological theories that state that muscular movements or other motor elements of the nervous system are necessary for perception, learning, memory, etc.; used esp. with reference to theories that maintain that the movements of articulation and the sensory feedback from these are essential for speech perception. ΚΠ 1888 Mind 13 520 This is no more explicable by the sensory than the motor theory. 1896 Mind 5 102 He employs the motor theory of attention very ingeniously to explain simple assimilation or recognition. 1903 Psychol. Rev. 10 49 The study of the bearing of such phenomena as I have described on the motor theory of such [spatial] perceptions. 1926 Psychol. Rev. 33 411 In this paper I propose to examine the motor theory of the ‘speech reactions’ of behaviorism from the standpoint of the disturbances of speech behavior in what is known as aphasia. 1996 Jrnl. Personality & Social Psychol. 71 874 Four multimethod studies probed the hypothesis, derived from the Zajonc-Markus motor theory of emotion, that facial recognition is enhanced by imitation of the faces. < as lemmas |
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