Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body

AM Borghi, F Cimatti - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Embodied cognition (EC) underlines that cognition is constrained by the kind of body we
possess, and stresses the importance of action for cognition. In this perspective the body is …

The mirror neuron system and treatment of stroke

SL Small, G Buccino, A Solodkin - Developmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Mirror neurons discharge during the execution of ecological goal‐directed manual and oral
actions, as well as during the observation of the same actions done by other individuals …
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V Boulenger, O Hauk, F Pulvermüller - Cerebral cortex, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However,
this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether …

Behavioral patterns and lesion sites associated with impaired processing of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions

D Kemmerer, D Rudrauf, K Manzel, D Tranel - Cortex, 2012 - Elsevier
To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

Are the motor features of verb meanings represented in the precentral motor cortices? Yes, but within the context of a flexible, multilevel architecture for conceptual …

D Kemmerer - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2015 - Springer
One of the most controversial issues in the cognitive neuroscience literature on concepts is
whether the motor features of verb meanings are represented in the precentral motor …

Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs

L Fernandino, LL Conant, JR Binder, K Blindauer… - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
The problem of how word meaning is processed in the brain has been a topic of intense
investigation in cognitive neuroscience. While considerable correlational evidence exists for …

A touch with words: Dynamic synergies between manual actions and language

AM García, A Ibáñez - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Manual actions are a hallmark of humanness. Their underlying neural circuitry gives rise to
species-specific skills and interacts with language processes. In particular, multiple studies …

Grip force reveals the context sensitivity of language-induced motor activity during “action words” processing: Evidence from sentential negation

P Aravena, Y Delevoye-Turrell, V Deprez, A Cheylus… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Studies demonstrating the involvement of motor brain structures in language
processing typically focus on time windows beyond the latencies of lexical-semantic access …

When do you grasp the idea? MEG evidence for instantaneous idiom understanding

V Boulenger, Y Shtyrov, F Pulvermüller - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigated the time-course of cortical activation during comprehension of literal and
idiomatic sentences using MEG and anatomically guided distributed source analysis …