Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex.

By Olaf Hauk, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Friedemann Pulvermüller. Neuron, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, background): “Although there is some neuroimaging evidence which suggests that premotor and inferior parietal cortex are activated in response to the understanding of action words (Hauk et al. 2004; Noppeney et al. 2005; Aziz-Zadeh et al. 2006), Decety and colleagues did not find increased activation in premotor ”
Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning (2011, background): “Hauk and colleagues demonstrated that the word kick activates areas in the motor strip that are also active when subjects move their feet (Hauk et al., 2004).”
A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain (2012, background): “…as animals versus nonanimals (Connolly et al., 2012; Downing et al., 2006; Kriege-skorte et al., 2008; Naselaris et al., 2009), manipulation versus shelterversuseating(Justetal.,2010),largeversussmall(Konkle and Oliva, 2012), or hand-versus mouth-versus foot-related actions (Hauk et al., 2004).”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, background): “Hauk et al. (2004) showed in an event-related fMRI study that silent reading of words referring to face, arm or leg actions led to the activation of different sectors of the premotor–motor areas that were congruent with the referential meaning of the read action words.”
Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans. (2006, result): “This finding is in accord with the selective nature of auditory facilitation in TMS studies [7, 9] and with the somatotopical representation of action words [36, 37].”
A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content. (2008, positive): “…For example, when participants view action words referring to hand actions, the 'hand' area of motor cortex is activated, while when subjects view action words referring to leg actions, the 'leg' area of motor cortex is activated (e.g., Hauk et al., 2004; see also Tettamanti et al., 2005).”
Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: a combined TMS and behavioral study. (2005, background): “motor areas that depended on the referential meaning of the read action words was found [30].”