Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

By M. Tettamanti, Giovanni Buccino, M. C. Saccuman, Vittorio Gallese †, M. Danna, Paola Scifo, Ferruccio Fazio, Giacomo Rizzolatti, S. Cappa, D. Perani. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Automatic emotion regulation (2005, background): “…suggest that parts of the parietal lobe are associated with implicitly activated motor programs (Decety & Grèzes, 1999; Jeannerod, Arbib, Rizzolatti, & Sakata, 1995; Johnson-Frey, 2004; Martin, Haxby, Lalonde, & Wiggs, 1995; Milner & Goodale, 1995; Tettamanti et al., 2005, for a meta-analysis).”
Where is the semantic system? A critical review and meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies. (2009, background): “For example, several studies have shown involvement of primary motor and premotor cortex in the comprehension of action verbs (Hauk et al. 2004; Pulvermuller et al. 2005; Tettamanti et al. 2005).”
The role of mirror neurons in speech perception and action word semantics (2010, background): “Patterson, & Wiley, 2008; Pulvermuller, Harle, & Hummel, 2001; Tettamanti et al., 2005).”
Human parietal cortex in action. (2006, background): “Mirror responses can also be driven by sounds or verbal descriptions that imply others’ actions [74,75].”
Investigating emotion with music: An fMRI study (2006, background): “In the auditory domain, mirror neurons that discharge in response to the sound of actions have been observed in monkeys [Kohler et al., 2002]; for humans, a recent study from Tettamanti et al. [2005] showed that merely listening to actionrelated sentences can activate mirror-function mechanisms.”
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification (2009, background): “…cortex containing the MNS is involved in processing action-related words and sentences (Buccino et al., 2005; Hauk, Johnsrude, & Pulvermüller, 2004; Tettamanti et al., 2005; see also Pulvermüller, 2002), suggesting—as it will become clearer in the final part of this paper—that mirror neurons…”
Brain regions with mirror properties: a meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies. (2012, methodology): “Others have used tasks involving stimuli across a range of modalities, including audition (e.g., Gazzola et al., 2006; Lewis et al., 2005; Tettamanti et al., 2005), somatosensation (e.g., Keysers et al., 2004; Schaefer et al. 2009), vision only (e.g., Molnar-Szakacs et al., 2006; Newman-Norlund et…”
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, result): “Similar activations were reported for action phrases and sentence”
Brain mechanisms linking language and action (2005, background): “In this case, participants heard action descriptions such as 'the boy kicked the ball' or 'the man wrote the letter' while their brain metabolism was monitore”
Inconsistencies in spontaneous and intentional trait inferences. (2012, background): “This network is typically activated when images are presented on human body movements (Van Overwalle and Baetens, 2009), but also when such information is verbally presented in a very vivid and concrete manner (e.g. ‘slapped’ his father) as in the present material (Tettamanti et al., 2005).”
Toward a theory of semantic representation (2009, background): “…that the primary motor cortex, and to a substantially lesser extent, primary sensory cortices are engaged in processing words and sentences referring to motion or sensory information (e.g. Buccino et al. 2001; Hauk et al. 2004; Kemmerer et al. 2007; Tettamanti et al. 2005; Vigliocco et al. 2006).”
Letter processing automatically recruits a sensory-motor brain network. (2006, background): “In addition, Tse and Cavanagh (2000) emonstrated that perception of apparent motion relies on preious experience about motor interactions with written forms.”
Congruent embodied representations for visually presented actions and linguistic phrases describing actions. (2006, result): “These results are consistent with two previous studies reporting separate representations of linguistic stimuli differing for their action content in premotor cortex [24, 25].”
Language and action: creating sensible combinations of ideas (2007, background): “For example, language about visual motion produces activation in those areas of the brain (MT/V5) strongly associated with the perception of visual motion (Tettamanti et al., 2005).”
Language, gesture, action! A test of the Gesture as Simulated Action framework (2010, background): “, I bite the apple; I grasp the knife; I kick the ball) (Tettamanti et al., 2005).”
Example-Based Learning: Integrating Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Research Perspectives (2010, background): “It has also been shown that the neural circuits that are active when executing and observing motor actions respond when hearing sentences that describe such actions (Tettamanti et al. 2005) or when imagining performing such actions without actual movement (Grèzes and Decety 2001; Hurley 2008).”
Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. (2006, background): “Together with a host of findings showing a strong connection between language and visual processes and representations (e.g., Bavelier, 1994; Fincher-Kiefer, 2001; Kaschak et al., 2005; Potter, Kroll, Yachzel, Carpenter, & Sherman, 1986; Richardson, Spivey, Barsalou, & MacRae, 2003; Spivey & Geng, 2”