scholarly journals Unravelling the contributions of motor experience and conceptual knowledge in action perception: A training study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Gerson ◽  
M. Meyer ◽  
S. Hunnius ◽  
H. Bekkering
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Training Study ◽  
Motor Experience

Developmental Change in Action Perception: Is Motor Experience the Cause?

Infancy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Loucks ◽  
Jessica Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Change ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Motor Experience

scholarly journals Short-term Motor Training, but Not Observational Training, Alters Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Action Processing in Infancy

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1207-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Gerson ◽  
Harold Bekkering ◽  
Sabine Hunnius
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Motor System ◽  
Motor Training ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Sound Effect ◽  
Motor Experience ◽  
Unique Effect ◽  
System Activation ◽  
Motor Actions

The role of motor experience in the processing of perceived actions is hotly debated on both behavioral (e.g., action understanding) and neural (e.g., activation of the motor system) levels of interpretation. Whereas some researchers focus on the role of motor experience in the understanding of and motor activity associated with perceived actions, others emphasize the role of visual experience with the perceived actions. The question of whether prior firsthand motor experience is critical to motor system activation during perception of actions performed by others is best addressed through studies with infants who have a limited repertoire of motor actions. In this way, infants can receive motor or visual training with novel actions that are not mere recombinations of previously acquired actions. In this study, 10-month-old infants received active training with a motorically unfamiliar action that resulted in a distinct sound effect. They received observational experience with a second, similarly unfamiliar action. Following training, we assessed infants' neural motor activity via EEG while they listened to the sounds associated with the actions relative to a novel sound. We found a greater decrease in mu power to sounds associated with the motorically learned action than to those associated with the observed action that the infants had never produced. This effect was directly related to individual differences in the degree of motor learning via motor training. These findings indicate a unique effect of active experience on neural correlates of action perception.

Teasing out cognitive development from cognitive style: A training study.

1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Globerson ◽  
Eliya Weinstein ◽  
Ruth Sharabany
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Training Study

Cerebeilar Receptor Changes Following Damage to the Sensorimotor Cortex and Differential Motor Experience

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie K. Powell ◽  
Kenira J. Thompson ◽  
Steven C. Bulinski ◽  
Angela M. Sikorski ◽  
Rodney A. Swain
Keyword(s):  
Sensorimotor Cortex ◽  
Motor Experience

Spontaneous focusing on quantitative relations as a predictor of the development of rational number conceptual knowledge.

2016 ◽  
Vol 108 (6) ◽  
pp. 857-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake McMullen ◽  
Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen ◽  
Eero Laakkonen ◽  
Erno Lehtinen
Keyword(s):  
Rational Number ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge

His Lordship's -ship and the King of Golfdom. Against a purely functional analysis of suffixhood

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Baeskow
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Independent Model

For many decades there has been a consensus among linguists of various schools that derivational suffixes function not only to determine the word-class of the complex expressions they form, but also convey semantic information. The aspect of suffix-inherent meaning is ignored by representatives of a relatively new theoretical direction – Neo-Construction Grammar – who consider derivational suffixes to be either purely functional elements of the grammar or meaningless phonological realizations of abstract grammatical morphemes. The latter view is maintained by adherents of Distributed Morphology, who at the same time emphasize the importance of conceptual knowledge for derivational processes without attempting to define this aspect. The purpose of this study is first of all to provide support for the long-standing assumption that suffixes are inherently meaningful. The focus of interest is on the suffixes -ship, -dom and -hood. Data from Old English and Modern English (including neologisms) will show that these suffixes have developed rich arrays of meaning which cannot be structurally derived. Moreover, since conceptual knowledge is indeed an important factor for word-formation processes, a concrete, theory-independent model for the representation of the synchronically observable meaning components associated with -ship, -dom and -hood will be proposed.

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