Knowing beans: human mirror mechanisms revealed through motor adaptation

Glenberg, None

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00206

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“…We know this in part from findings that perceptual and motor information comes online very early—as quickly as 100 ms from word onset (Amsel, Urbach, & Kutas, ; Pulvermuller, Shtyrov, & Hauk, ). The causal function of these activations is further supported by studies showing that disrupting perceptual or motor resources decreases comprehension speed (Glenberg et al., ; Pulvermüller, Shtyrov, & Ilmoniemi, ) and accuracy (Yee, Chrysikou, Hoffman, & Thompson‐Schill, ) of words whose meanings involve those specific percepts or actions.…”

Section: Language Programs the Mind By Interfacing With Grounded Mentmentioning

confidence: 81%

How Language Programs the Mind

Lupyan

Bergen

2015

Topics in Cognitive Science

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Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively more powerful-being programmable. We argue that such programmability constitutes a leap in the way that organisms learn, interact, and transmit knowledge, and that what facilitates or enables this programmability is the learning and use of language. We then examine how language programs the mind and argue that it does so through the manipulation of embodied, sensorimotor representations. The role language plays in controlling mental representations offers important insights for understanding its origin and evolution.

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Section: Language Programs the Mind By Interfacing With Grounded Mentmentioning

confidence: 81%

How Language Programs the Mind

Lupyan

Bergen

2015

Topics in Cognitive Science

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“…This can potentially be addressed using priming or adaptation paradigms (Henson and Rugg, 2003; Wheatley et al, 2005; Gold et al, 2006). Recent studies have introduced motor priming paradigms to the investigation of embodiment (Glenberg et al, 2010). In a recent combined EEG/MEG study, arm- and leg-related words were presented shortly after participants initiated the experimental trial themselves by button press (Mollo et al, 2011).…”

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The Body of Evidence: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Embodied Semantics?

Hauk¹,

Tschentscher²

2013

Front. Psychology

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Semantic knowledge is based on the way we perceive and interact with the world. However, the jury is still out on the question: to what degree are neuronal systems that subserve acquisition of semantic knowledge, such as sensory-motor networks, involved in its representation and processing? We will begin with a critical evaluation of the main behavioral and neuroimaging methods with respect to their capability to define the functional roles of specific brain areas. Any behavioral or neuroscientific measure is a conflation of representations and processes. Hence, a combination of behavioral and neurophysiological interactions as well as time-course information is required to define the functional roles of brain areas. This will guide our review of the empirical literature. Most research in this area has been done on semantics of concrete words, where clear theoretical frameworks for an involvement of sensory-motor systems in semantics exist. Most of this evidence still stems from correlational studies that are ambiguous with respect to the behavioral relevance of effects. Evidence for causal effects of sensory-motor systems on semantic processes is still scarce but evolving. Relatively few neuroscientific studies so far have investigated the embodiment of abstract semantics for words, numbers, and arithmetic facts. Here, some correlational evidence exists, but data on causality are mostly absent. We conclude that neuroimaging data, just as behavioral data, have so far not disentangled the fundamental link between process and representation. Future studies should therefore put more emphasis on the effects of task and context on semantic processing. Strong conclusions can only be drawn from a combination of methods that provide time-course information, determine the connectivity among poly- or amodal and sensory-motor areas, link behavioral with neuroimaging measures, and allow causal inferences. We will conclude with suggestions on how this could be accomplished in future research.

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“…These electrophysiological studies suggested that an activation of sensorimotor areas is connected to concrete action language processing. A great number of behavioral and fMRI studies further supported this assumption (D'Ausilio et al, 2009;Glenberg et al, 2010;Hauk et al, 2004;Klatzky, Pellegrino, McCloskey, & Doherty, 1989;Moseley & Pulvermüller, 2014;Pulvermüller, Shtyrov, & Ilmoniemi, 2005) and partly revealed that processing abstract action language (e.g., pushing the argument) leads to an activation of motor areas as well (Desai, Binder, Conant, Mano, & Seidenberg, 2011;Desai, Conant, Binder, Park, & Seidenberg, 2013;Glenberg et al, 2008;Romero Lauro, Mattavelli, Papagno, & Tettamanti, 2013;Schaller, Weiss, & Müller, in press;Wilson & Gibbs, 2007). However, the effects following abstract action language seem to be weaker than those following concrete action language.…”

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EEG beta-power changes reflect motor involvement in abstract action language processing

2017

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language Action verbs Beta-oscillation Event-related desynchronization (ERD) a b s t r a c tBrain oscillations in the a-and b-range become suppressed during motor processing and motor imagery.It has recently been discussed that such power changes also occur during action language processing. In our study, we compared b 2 -oscillations (16-25 Hz) during the observation of prototypical arm movements (revealed via motion tracking) as well as during semantic processing of concrete and abstract sentences containing arm-related action verbs. Whereas we did find a strong desynchronization in the b 2 -range during action observation, the processing of action sentences evoked a rather weak desynchronization. However, this desynchronization occurred for action verbs in both concrete and abstract contexts. These results might indicate a tendency for abstract action language to be processed similar to concrete action language rather than abstract sentences. The oscillation patterns reflect the close relationship between language comprehension and motor functions -one of the core claims of current theories on embodied cognition.

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Knowing beans: human mirror mechanisms revealed through motor adaptation

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

How Language Programs the Mind

How Language Programs the Mind

The Body of Evidence: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Embodied Semantics?

EEG beta-power changes reflect motor involvement in abstract action language processing

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