Journal
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 6, Pages 896-904Publisher
PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701625519
Keywords
motor resonance; mental simulation; embodied cognition; action; language comprehension
Funding
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH063972] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-63972] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Previous studies have demonstrated that verbal descriptions of actions activate compatible motor responses (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006). The present study replicates previous findings showing that, within a sentence, such activation is localized on the verb that denotes the action. Moreover, motor resonance is found to yield to linguistic focus. If a postverbal adverb maintains focus on a matching action (slowly or quickly), motor resonance occurs, but if the adverb shifts the focus to the agent (e.g., obediently or eagerly), a cessation of motor resonance ensues. These findings are discussed within the context of theories of motor resonance, action understanding, mental simulation, and linguistic focus.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available