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Contrasting Similar Words Facilitates Second Language Vocabulary Learning in Children by Sharpening Lexical Representations
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Effects of stimulus response compatibility on covert imitation of vowels
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Effects of stimulus response compatibility on covert imitation of vowels
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Early Social Experience Predicts Referential Communicative Adjustments in Five-Year-Old Children
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The role of accent imitation in sensorimotor integration during processing of intelligible speech
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The role of accent imitation in sensorimotor integration during processing of intelligible speech
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Pragmatics in action : indirect requests engage theory of mind areas and the cortical motor network
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Research from the past decade has shown that understanding the meaning of words and utterances (i.e., abstracted symbols) engages the same systems we used to perceive and interact with the physical world in a content-specific manner. For example, understanding the word "grasp" elicits activation in the cortical motor network, that is, part of the neural substrate involved in planned and executing a grasping action. In the embodied literature, cortical motor activation during language comprehension is thought to reflect motor simulation underlying conceptual knowledge [note that outside the embodied framework, other explanations for the link between action and language are offered, e.g., Mahon & Caramazza, 2008; Hagoort, P. On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework. Trend in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 416-423, 2005]. Previous research has supported the view that the coupling between language and action is flexible, and reading an action-related word form is not sufficient for cortical motor activation [Van Dam, W. O., van Dijk, M., Bekkering, H., & Rüschemeyer, S.-A. Flexibility in embodied lexical-semantic representations. Human Brain Mapping, in press]. The current study goes one step further by addressing the necessity of action-related word forms for motor activation during language comprehension. Subjects listened to indirect requests (IRs) for action during an fMRI session. IRs for action are speech acts in which access to an action concept is required, although it is not explicitly encoded in the language. For example, the utterance "It is hot here!" in a room with a window is likely to be interpreted as a request to open the window. However, the same utterance in a desert will be interpreted as a statement. The results indicate (1) that comprehension of IR sentences activates cortical motor areas reliably more than comprehension of sentences devoid of any implicit motor information. This is true despite the fact that IR sentences contain no lexical reference to action. (2) Comprehension of IR sentences also reliably activates substantial portions of the theory of mind network, known to be involved in making inferences about mental states of others. The implications of these findings for embodied theories of language are discussed.
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URL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/79429/1/vanAckeren_JOCN_2012.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00274
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/79429/
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Body schematics: on the role of the body schema in embodied lexical-semantic representations
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In: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/164963 (2011)
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Embodied Language Comprehension Requires an Enactivist Paradigm of Cognition
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