ArticleBiological psychology2017
Neural bases of action abstraction.
Article in Biological psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal cortex in representing actions across vision and language.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The case of CAUSE: neurobiological mechanisms for grounding an abstract concept.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Behavioral and Neural Representations of Spatial Directions across Words, Schemas, and Images.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
There has been recent debate over whether actions are processed primarily by means of motor simulation or cognitive semantics. The current study investigated how abstract action concepts are processed in the brain, independent of the format in which they are presented. Eighteen healthy adult participants viewed different actions (e.g., diving, boxing) in the form of verbs and schematic action pictograms while functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was collected. We predicted that sensorimotor and semantic brain regions would show similar patterns of neural activity for different instances of the same action (e.g., diving pictogram and the word 'diving'). A representational similarity analysis revealed posterior temporal and sensorimotor regions where specific action concepts were encoded, independent of the format of presentation. These results reveal the neural instantiations of abstract action concepts, and demonstrate that both sensorimotor and semantic systems are involved in processing actions.
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