>>56591145>Automatic accounts such as those described above tend to focus on input-driven ratherthan expectation-driven convergence, since they rely on maximally similar perception
triggers and production targets that share a linguistic representation at some level. Under
direct realism and motor theory, for instance, imitation is a natural consequence of employing the motor system in linguistic perception, but a recently perceived motor gesture
would have to be similar enough to the production target to exert any real influence
Bullshit
