Ghent University. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Abstract
The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the process of verbal monitoring. Specifically, this thesis investigates whether internal and external monitoring proceeds via the same, perception-based process, as proposed by the perceptual loop theory. We compare verbal internal and external monitoring with the use of eye-tracking, fMRI and Parkinson patient data. The data obtained suggest that verbal monitoring is not perception based, and that is a domain general process. We therefore propose the improvement of current monitoring models by describing a domain general monitoring mechanism for internal monitoring and external monitoring, by which conflict is resolved in a process-independent manner
