Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 128, Issue 1, Pages 41-52Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.12.001
Keywords
Embodied cognition; MEG; Dipole sources; Action verbs
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 991/1, B03, C04]
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The current study investigated sensorimotor involvement in the processing of verbs describing actions performed with the hands, feet, or no body part. Actual movements were used to identify neuromagnetic sources for hand and foot actions. These sources constrained the analysis of verb processing. While hand and foot sources picked up activation in all three verb conditions, peak amplitudes showed an interaction of source and verb condition at 200 ms after word onset, thereby reflecting effector-specificity. Specifically, hand verbs elicited significantly higher peak amplitudes than foot verbs in hand sources. Our results are in line with theories of embodied cognition that assume an involvement of sensorimotor areas in early stages of lexico-semantic processing, even for single words without a semantic or motor task. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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