Action relevance in linguistic context drives word-induced motor activity

Action relevance in linguistic context drives word-induced motor activity

Many neurocognitive studies on the role of motor structures in action-language processing have implicitly adopted a dictionary-like framework within which lexical meaning is constructed on the basis of an invariant set of semantic features. The debate has thus been centered on the question of whethe...

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Main Authors: Pia eAravena, Melody eCourson, Victor eFrak, Anne eCheylus, Yves ePaulignan, Viviane eDeprez, Tatjana eNazir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Conceptual flexibility
context-dependency
situation model
Embodied Language
lexical semantics
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00163/full

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