Homologous Intrusions: An Analogue of Linguistic Blends

Donald G. Mac Kay, George A. Soderberg · Perceptual and Motor Skills · 1971

Homologous intrusions represent a frequent type of error in a task involving synchronous tapping with the fingers of both hands and reflect the incursion of one motor sequence on another in a manner resembling linguistic blends, such as EVOID, an inadvertent combination of EVADE and AVOID.

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