Painful semantic context modulates the relationship between action words and biological movement perception

Abstract

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Flexible and fine-grained simulation of speed in language processing

“…The facilitated verb recognition in the first-person perspective fast action sentences compared with that in the first-person perspective slow action sentences seemed to be consistent with previous research which found that action simulation can be modulated by semantic context (e.g., Moody and Gennari, 2010 ; Bidet-Ildei et al, 2017a ; Sieksmeyer et al, 2021 ). One possible explanation for this might be that the fast action sentences were more semantically plausible and familiar than the slow action sentences.…”

“…When the congruent action verbs were embedded in plausible sentences, the visual detection capacity and detection speed would be increased, which indicated that the plausibility of sentence context could modify the action simulation thus affecting the relationship between action verb and biological movements perception. Besides, Bidet-Ildei et al (2017a) asked participants to listen to an action sentence depicting either a painful or painless sentence (e.g., “The boy is sitting on a chair” vs. “The boy is sitting on a nail”) and then detect point-light biological movements. Results showed that movement detection was facilitated when the sentence depicted a congruent action but only in the painless context, which indicated that the painful context hindered the motor simulation.…”

PLAViMoP: How to standardize and simplify the use of point-light displays

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“…To date, several questions remain under debate, such as the roles of local and global information (e.g., Bardi et al, 2011;Chang & Troje, 2009), the impact of motor and visual experience (see Bidet-Ildei, Orliaguet, & Coello, 2011, for a review) and the role of sex differences in perceptual performances (e.g., Pavlova, Sokolov, & Bidet-Ildei, 2015). Moreover, whereas links have been demonstrated between the processing of biological motion and the processing of language Bidet-Ildei, Gimenes, Toussaint, Beauprez, & Badets, 2017;Bidet-Ildei, Sparrow, & Coello, 2011;Bidet-Ildei & Toussaint, 2015;Pavlova et al, 2015), numbers (Badets et al, 2015) or social activities (Atkinson et al, 2004), the specificity of these links and their neural substrates remain open questions.…”

A review of literature on the link between action observation and action language: advancing a shared semantic theory

“…To investigate this factor, several studies assessed the implication of action during action verb processing according to the semantic characteristics of the sentence in which the verb was included (Bidet-Ildei, Gimenes, Toussaint, Almecija, & Badets, 2017; Bidet-Ildei, Gimenes, Toussaint, Beauprez, & Badets, 2017;de Vega et al, 2014;Troyer et al, 2014). While some studies have clearly shown that semantics can affect peripheral motor reactions (i.e., grip force) to action verbs (Aravena et al, 2014(Aravena et al, , 2012, works focusing on the role of action representations show more varied conclusions.…”