title: How do forward models work? And why would you want them?
abstract: The project of coordinating perception, comprehension, and motor control is an exciting one, but I found it hard to follow some of Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) arguments as presented. Consequently, my comment is not so much a disagreement with P&G but a query about the logic of forward models: It is not clear how they are supposed to work, nor why they are needed in this (or many other) contexts, and toward that end I present an alternative idea.
authors.affiliation: School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, BS8 4JS Bristol, United Kingdom. j.bowers@bris.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bowers
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*