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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104834
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Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Motor system; TMS; TDCS; P -curve analysis; Excess significance
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According to the embodied cognition view, comprehending action-related language requires the participation of sensorimotor processes. While most studies support this view, a significant portion of them lack statistical power and show signs of publication bias.
According to the embodied cognition view, comprehending action-related language requires the participation of sensorimotor processes. A now sizeable literature has tested this proposal by stimulating (with TMS or tDCS) motor brain areas during the comprehension of action language. To assess the evidential value of this body of research, we exhaustively searched the literature and submitted the relevant studies (N = 43) to p-curve analysis. While most published studies concluded in support of the embodiment hypothesis, our results suggest that we cannot yet assert beyond reasonable doubt that they explore real effects. We also found that these studies are quite underpowered (estimated power < 30%), which means that a large percentage of them would not replicate if repeated identically. Additional tests for excess significance show signs of publication bias within this litera-ture. In sum, extant brain stimulation studies testing the grounding of action language in the motor cortex do not stand on solid ground. We provide recommendations that will be important for future research on this topic. Superscript/Subscript Available
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