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- Title
Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension.
- Authors
Zwaan, Rolf A; Taylor, Lawrence J
- Abstract
Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 novel questions regarding language-based motor resonance. The 1st question asks whether visual motion that is associated with an action produces motor resonance in sentence comprehension. The 2nd question asks whether motor resonance is modulated during sentence comprehension. The authors' experiments provide an affirmative response to both questions. A rotating visual stimulus affects both actual manual rotation and the comprehension of manual rotation sentences. Motor resonance is modulated by the linguistic input and is a rather immediate and localized phenomenon. The results are discussed in the context of theories of action observation and mental simulation.
- Publication
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2006, Vol 135, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0096-3445
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0096-3445.135.1.1