Seeing, Acting, Understanding: Motor Resonance in Language Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Zwaan, Rolf A.; Taylor, Lawrence J.
Titel	Seeing, Acting, Understanding: Motor Resonance in Language Comprehension
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135 (2006) 1, S.1-11 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-3445
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Sentences; Visual Stimuli; Receptive Language; Motor Reactions; Metacognition; Neurolinguistics; Neuropsychology; Perceptual Motor Learning; Visual Perception; Scientific Research; Hypothesis Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Neurolinguistisches Programmieren; Neuropsychologie; Perceptual-motor learning; Sensumotorisches Lernen; Wahrnehmungsschulung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
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. (Author).
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