Language comprehension and dominant hand motion simulation

被引:30
作者
Borghi, Anna M. [1 ]
Scorolli, Claudia [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dept Psychol, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[2] Univ Bologna, Dept Commun Disciplines, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
关键词
Language comprehension; Motor system; Simulation; Embodiment; Motor resonance; MOTOR; PERCEPTION; IMITATION; REPRESENTATIONS; RESONANCE; KNOWLEDGE; FRAMEWORK; MOVEMENTS; NEURONS; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.1016/j.humov.2008.07.002
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
In five experiments participants were presented with pairs of nouns and verbs. They were asked to decide whether the combinations made sense or not. Half of the participants responded "yes" with the dominant hand, half with the left hand. When pairs referred to manual and mouth actions, participants responded faster with the dominant than with the left hand with sensible sentences. When pairs referred to manual and foot actions the result was opposite. Results suggest that language processing activates an action simulation that is sensitive to both the effector involved and the goal expressed by the sentence. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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