Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system
Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system
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DOI：
10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.033
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发表时间：
2007-01-26
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Borghi, Anna M.
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作者：
Scorolli, Claudia;Borghi, Anna M.
本文旨在研究句子理解是否对运动系统有调节作用。参与者被提供了24对名词和动词，这些名词和动词可以指的是手和嘴的动作（例如，打开包装对吮吸糖果），在第一个块中，或者，在第二个块中，到24个手和脚动作（例如，踢足球（kick the ball）。呈现了相等数量的非敏感对。参与者的任务包括决定组合是否有意义：20名参与者对着麦克风大声说“是”，20名参与者踩下踏板。结果支持体现理论的语言理解，因为他们认为，句子处理激活了动作模拟。这个模拟非常详细，因为它对所涉及的效应器很敏感。也就是说，它导致了一个便利化的反应，以“口句子”和“脚句子”相比，“手句子”的情况下，一致性之间的效应-嘴和脚-参与运动反应和句子。(c)2006 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利。
The purpose of the paper is to study whether sentence comprehension modulates the motor system. Participants were presented with 24 pairs of nouns and verbs that could be referred to hand and mouth actions (e.g., to unwrap vs. to suck the sweet), in the first block, or, in the second block, to 24 hand and foot actions (e.g., to throw vs. kick the ball). An equal number of non-sensible pairs were presented. Participants' task consisted of deciding whether the combination made sense or not: 20 participants responded by saying yes loudly into a microphone, 20 by pressing a pedal. Results support embodied theories of language comprehension, as they suggest that sentence processing activates an action simulation. This simulation is quite detailed, as it is sensitive to the effector involved. Namely, it leads to a facilitation in responses to 'mouth sentences' and 'foot sentences' compared to 'hand sentences' in case of congruency between the effectors - mouth and foot - involved in the motor response and in the sentence. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.