Carol Fowler

Carol A. Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was a former President and Director of Research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at Yale University.^[1] She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1971 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1977. She is best known for her direct realist approach to speech perception. She has also done extensive research on the relationship between speech perception and speech production, and on imitation. In her research, she has found that language has enabled us to communicate and express ourselves via manual gestures, facial expressions, eye gaze, and etc. Listeners understand language in two ways: they use the environment to promote expressions and show self-organization which helps to understand the language. The use of language is related to the environment in the sense that speakers use deictic points, manual or vocal ^[2].

Representative publications

• Fowler, C. A., Rubin, P. E., Remez, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1980). Implications for speech production of a general theory of action. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), Language Production, Vol. I: Speech and Talk (pp. 373–420). New York: Academic Press.
• Fowler, C. A., Galantucci, B. and Saltzman, E. (2003). Motor theories of perception. In M. Arbib (Ed.) The handbook of brain theory and neural networks. (pp. 705–707) Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
• Fowler, C. A. (2003). Speech production and perception. In A. Healy and R. Proctor (eds.). Handbook of psychology, Vol. 4: Experimental Psychology. (pp. 237–266) New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Nye, P.; Fowler, C. A. (2003). "Shadowing latency and imitation: The effect of familiarity with the phonetic patterning of English". Journal of Phonetics 31: 63–79. doi:10.1016/S0095-4470(02)00072-4. 
• Goldstein, L. and Fowler, C. A. (2003). Articulatory phonology: A phonology for public language use. In N. O. Schiller and A. Meyer (eds) Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities. (pp. 159–207) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Galantucci, B; Fowler, C.A.; Turvey, M.T. (2006). "The motor theory of speech perception reviewed". Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 13 (3): 361–377. PMC 2746041. PMID 17048719. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2746041. 

References

Fowler, C. A. (2010). Embodied, Embedded Language Use. Ecological Psychology , Vol. 22, Iss. 4.