Neural correlates of manual action language: Comparative review, ALE meta-analysis and ROI meta-analysis

Courson, Melody; Tremblay, Pascale

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.025

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“…Additionally, ASD children with lower‐middle intelligence and those with upper‐middle intelligence performed better in the SPT condition than in the VT condition. Studies revealed that speech and movement have overlapping neural pathways (see Courson & Tremblay, 2020; Zhu & Zhang, 2007), which provides evidence for the important role of the movement component in a working memory task for instructions. After the potential explanatory effect of processing materials twice is excluded, the SPT effect in working memory in ASD children is accounted for by the movement component.…”

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Subject‐performed task effect on working memory performance in children with autism spectrum disorder

Wang

Xie

et al. 2022

Autism Research

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A previous study found that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have better recall when they perform instructions (subject‐performed task [SPT]) than when they passively hear instructions (verbal task [VT]) in a working memory task for instructions, an effect that is called the SPT effect. This study explored whether the SPT effect exhibited by ASD children is caused by the movement component or by processing materials twice. More importantly, this study explored whether intelligence influences the SPT effect exhibited by ASD children. ASD children with three levels of intelligence (N = 56) and a control group, children with intellectual disability (ID) who had low intelligence but did not have ASD (N = 21), were asked to perform working memory tasks for instructions under VT, SPT and repeated (hearing the instruction twice) conditions. No significant difference in performance was observed between the VT and repeated conditions, regardless of the child's level of intelligence. ASD children with lower‐middle intelligence exhibited a smaller SPT effect than ASD children with upper‐middle intelligence. Critically, while ASD children with low intelligence did not exhibit the SPT effect, an ID group with equivalent low intelligence did show this effect. Therefore, these results show that the SPT effect for ASD children is caused by the movement component and is uniquely associated with a certain level of intelligence, namely, lower middle and higher levels of intelligence. Lay Summary In ASD children, the benefit of physically performing instructions for working memory performance is uniquely associated with a certain level of intelligence. Only ASD children with lower‐middle intelligence (and higher) benefit from physically performing instructions, and higher intelligence increases this benefit; ASD children with low intelligence do not show this benefit. This benefit in ASD children is attributed to the additional motoric code generated by physical performance.

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Subject‐performed task effect on working memory performance in children with autism spectrum disorder

Wang

Xie

et al. 2022

Autism Research

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“…Evidence for the assumption of spreading network activation is for example provided by a study showing that listening to activity‐related sentences can activate corresponding sensorimotor networks (Tettamanti et al., 2005 ). Two meta‐analyses report that activated regions for action language processing and regions activated by motor execution, imagery, and observation are distinct, but overlap substantially (Courson & Tremblay, 2020 ; Yang & Shu, 2016 ). Therefore, these meta‐analyses imply that language and action activate unique neuronal networks, which nevertheless overlap substantially and thereby are capable of activating each other.…”

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Embodiment of sleep‐related words: Evidence from event‐related potentials

Hülsemann

Rasch

2021

Psychophysiology

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“…Evidence for the assumption of spreading network activation is for example provided by a study showing that listening to activity-related sentences can activate corresponding sensorimotor networks (Tettamanti et al, 2005). Two meta-analyses report that activated regions for action language processing and regions activated by motor execution, imagery, and observation are distinct, but overlap substantially (Courson and Tremblay, 2020;Yang and Shu, Hülsemann & Rasch, Embodiment of sleep-related words, page 25 25 2016). Therefore, these meta-analyses imply that language and action activate unique neuronal networks, which nevertheless overlap substantially and thereby are capable of activating each other.…”

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Embodiment of sleep-related words: evidence from event-related potentials

Huelsemann

Rasch

2020

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Our thoughts, plans and intentions can influence physiological sleep, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. According to the theoretical framework of “embodied cognition”, the semantic content of cognitive processes is represented by multimodal networks in the brain which also include body-related functions. Such multimodal representation could offer a mechanism which explains mutual influences between cognition and sleep. In the current study we tested whether sleep-related words are represented in multimodal networks by examining the effect of congruent vs. incongruent body positions on word processing during wakefulness.We experimentally manipulated the body position of 66 subjects (50 females, 16 males, 19-40 years old) between standing upright and lying down. Sleep- and activity-related words were presented around the individual speech recognition threshold to increase task difficulty. Our results show that word processing is facilitated in congruent body positions (sleep words: lying down and activity words: standing upright) compared with incongruent body positions, as indicated by a reduced N400 of the event-related potential (ERP) in the congruent condition with the lowest volume. In addition, early sensory components of the ERP (N180 and P280) were enhanced, suggesting that words were also acoustically better understood when the body position was congruent with the semantic meaning of the word. However, the difference in ERPs did not translate to differences on a behavioural level.Our results support the prediction of embodied processing of sleep- and activity-related words. Body position potentially induces a pre-activation of multimodal networks, thereby enhancing the access to the semantic concepts of words related to current the body position. The mutual link between semantic meaning and body-related function could be a key element in explaining influences of cognitive processing on sleep.

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Neural correlates of manual action language: Comparative review, ALE meta-analysis and ROI meta-analysis

Cited by 16 publications

References 150 publications

Subject‐performed task effect on working memory performance in children with autism spectrum disorder

Subject‐performed task effect on working memory performance in children with autism spectrum disorder

Embodiment of sleep‐related words: Evidence from event‐related potentials

Embodiment of sleep-related words: evidence from event-related potentials

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