scholarly journals Temporal Characteristics of Neural Processing During Action Perception: The Role of Biological Form and Biological Motion

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 643-643
Author(s):  
B. A. Urgen ◽  
M. Plank ◽  
M. Kutas ◽  
H. Poizner ◽  
A. P. Saygin
Keyword(s):  
Biological Motion ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Temporal Characteristics ◽  
Biological Form

The Influence of (Biological) Form on the Perception of Biological Motion

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Miller ◽  
Burcu A. Urgen ◽  
Maria Florendo ◽  
Jennifer Cook ◽  
Ayse P. Saygin
Keyword(s):  
Biological Motion ◽  
Biological Form ◽  
Perception Of Biological Motion

scholarly journals Seeing the World Topsy-Turvy: The Primary Role of Kinematics in Biological Motion Inversion Effects

i-Perception ◽  
10.1068/i0612 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue-Anne Fitzgerald ◽  
Anna Brooks ◽  
Rick van der Zwan ◽  
Duncan Blair
Keyword(s):  
Biological Motion ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Inversion Effects

scholarly journals Role of dorsal and ventral stream development in biological motion perception

Neuroreport ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (18) ◽  
pp. 1763-1767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Lichtensteiger ◽  
Thomas Loenneker ◽  
Kerstin Bucher ◽  
Ernst Martin ◽  
Peter Klaver
Keyword(s):  
Motion Perception ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Ventral Stream ◽  
Biological Motion Perception

THE ROLE OF STS IN MIMETIC-WORD PROCESSING: SOUND SYMBOLISM OR BIOLOGICAL MOTION?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNKO KANERO ◽  
MUTSUMI IMAI ◽  
HIROYUKI OKADA ◽  
TETSUYA MATSUDA
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Sound Symbolism

scholarly journals The role of motor simulation in action perception: a neuropsychological case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Eskenazi ◽  
Marc Grosjean ◽  
Glyn W. Humphreys ◽  
Guenther Knoblich
Keyword(s):  
Action Perception ◽  
Motor Simulation

scholarly journals Interwoven functionality of the brain’s action and language systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Boulenger ◽  
Tatjana A. Nazir
Keyword(s):  
Word Meaning ◽  
Masked Priming ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
Semantic Retrieval ◽  
Motor Action ◽  
Electrophysiological Studies ◽  
Neuroimaging Study ◽  
Action Verbs ◽  
The Brain

Theories of embodied cognition consider language understanding as intimately linked to sensory and motor processes. Here we review evidence from kinematic and electrophysiological studies for the idea that processing of words referring to bodily actions, even when subliminally presented, recruits the same motor regions that are involved in motor control. We further discuss the functional role of the motor system in action word retrieval in light of neuropsychological data showing modulation of masked priming effects for action verbs in Parkinson’s patients as a function of dopaminergic treatment. Finally, a neuroimaging study revealing semantic somatotopy in the motor cortex during reading of idioms that include action words is presented. Altogether these findings provide strong arguments that semantic mechanisms are grounded in action-perception systems of the brain. They support the existence of common brain signatures to action words, even when embedded in idiomatic sentences, and motor action. They further suggest that motor schemata reflecting word meaning contribute to lexico-semantic retrieval of action words.

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