ArticleBrain sciences2022
The Semantics of Natural Objects and Tools in the Brain: A Combined Behavioral and MEG Study.
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- The space of words: semantic integration of space-related words in noun sensorimotor processing.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Grasp Motor Representations Facilitate Conceptual Preparation in Speech Production.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Processing L2 action verbs shares the same mechanisms for processing L1 items: evidence from a combined behavioral and MEG study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Activity in Occipito-Temporal Cortex Is Involved in Tool-Use Planning and Contributes to Tool-Related Semantic Neural Representations.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Hand constraint reduces brain activity and affects the speed of verbal responses on semantic tasks.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Role of the Sensorimotor System in Cognitive Functions.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Grounding abstract concepts and beliefs into experience: The embodied perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Grasping the semantic of actions: a combined behavioral and MEG study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Current literature supports the notion that the recognition of objects, when visually presented, is sub-served by neural structures different from those responsible for the semantic processing of their nouns. However, embodiment foresees that processing observed objects and their verbal labels should share similar neural mechanisms. In a combined behavioral and MEG study, we compared the modulation of motor responses and cortical rhythms during the processing of graspable natural objects and tools, either verbally or pictorially presented. Our findings demonstrate that conveying meaning to an observed object or processing its noun similarly modulates both motor responses and cortical rhythms; being natural graspable objects and tools differently represented in the brain, they affect in a different manner both behavioral and MEG findings, independent of presentation modality. These results provide experimental evidence that neural substrates responsible for conveying meaning to objects overlap with those where the object is represented, thus supporting an embodied view of semantic processing.
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