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The comprehension of action-related sentences may cause interference rather than facilitation on matching actions.
Trial report in Psychological research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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- Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Embodying Language through Gestures: Residuals of Motor Memories Modulate Motor Cortex Excitability during Abstract Words Comprehension.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Brain correlates of action word memory revealed by fMRI.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE).Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- The Semantics of Natural Objects and Tools in the Brain: A Combined Behavioral and MEG Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Grasping the semantic of actions: a combined behavioral and MEG study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Evidence for the Concreteness of Abstract Language: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Abstract Action Language Processing in Eleven-Year-Old Children: Influence of Upper Limb Movement on Sentence Comprehension.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Neural Blending of Words and Movement: Event-Related Potential Signatures of Semantic and Action Processes during Motor-Language Coupling.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- What's "up"? Impaired Spatial Preposition Processing in Posterior Cortical Atrophy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Electrifying discourse: Anodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex selectively reduces action appraisal in naturalistic narratives.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2020Article
- Embodiment Effect on the Comprehension of Mandarin Manual Action Language: An ERP Study.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2019Article
- How do German bilingual schoolchildren process German prepositions? - A study on language-motor interactions.PloS one · 2018Article
- Flexibility in Language Action Interaction: The Influence of Movement Type.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Understanding approach and avoidance in verbal descriptions of everyday actions: An ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
This study used a dual-task paradigm to analyze the time course of motor resonance during the comprehension of action language. In the study, participants read sentences describing a transfer either away from ("I threw the tennis ball to my rival") or toward themselves ("My rival threw me the tennis ball"). When the transfer verb appeared on the screen, and after a variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), a visual motion cue (Experiment 1) or a static cue (Experiment 2) prompted participants to move their hand either away from or toward themselves to press a button. The results showed meaning-action interference at short SOAs and facilitation at the longest SOA for the matching conditions. These results support the hypothesis that motor processes associated with the comprehension of action-related language interfere with an overlapping motor task, whereas they facilitate a delayed motor task. These effects are discussed in terms of resonance processes in the motor cortex.
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