Auditory "Objects:" The Role of Motor Activity in Auditory Perception and Speech Perception

In Pribram's theory, the motor system plays an important role in the transformation from image to object. Exploratory head and eye movements provide successive images of a scene from a variety of vantage points. These different vantage points pennit discrimination of properties of the scene that vary over vantage points (such as the occlusion of part of an object by another) from those (such as object coherence and object shape) that do not. In this way, objects are recovered from images.