Do not resonate with actions: sentence polarity modulates cortico-spinal excitability during action-related sentence reading.

BACKGROUND: Theories of embodied language suggest that the motor system is differentially called into action when processing motor-related versus abstract content words or sentences. It has been recently shown that processing negative polarity action-related sentences modulates neural activity of pr...

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Main Authors: Marco Tullio Liuzza, Matteo Candidi, Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3037953?pdf=render