Brain mechanisms linking language and action

By Friedemann Pulvermüller. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Multimodal Distributional Semantics (2013, background): “For example, perceiving actiondenoting verbs such as kick or lick involves the activation of areas of the brain controlling foot and tongue movements, respectively (Pulvermueller, 2005).”
Language, gesture, action! A test of the Gesture as Simulated Action framework (2010, background): “The idea that action simulations are involved in language comprehension and production is gaining empirical support (e.g., Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Pulvermüller, 2005; Spivey, Richardson, & Gonzales-Marquez, 2005; Willems & Hagoort, 2007).”
Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, background): “Nevertheless, recent findings on the neurocognition of language semantics on the one hand (e.g. Pulvermuller 2005), and human action observation systems on the other (Decety et al. 1997; Rizzolatti and Arbib 1998; Rizzolatti et al. 2001; Rizzolatti and Craighero 2004; Molnar-Szakacs et al. 2005),…”
Getting the point: Tracing worked examples enhances learning (2015, result): “Their argument has been supported by other behavioral studies (e.g., Glenberg, Sato, Cattaneo, Riggio, Palumbo, & Buccino, 2008; Scorolli, Borghi, & Glenberg, 2009; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006) and work in the neurosciences (for a review, see Pulvermüller, 2005).”
Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension (2008, background): “…to movements of the face, arm, or leg activated fronto-central cortex in a somatotopic fashion (Hauk, Johnsrude, & Pulvermüller, 2004; Shtyrov, Hauk, & Pulvermüller, 2004) consistent with the claim that sensorimotor cortex processes action-related aspects of word meaning (Pulvermüller, 2005).”
Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation (2009, background): “…cannot reject as easily, however, the possibility that some implicit simulations exist—speciﬁcally in implicit memory, high-level perception, sensorimotor coordination, conceptual knowledge (Barsalou 1999, 2003, 2008), language comprehension (Pulvermuller 2005) and social cognition (Gallese 2006).”
Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions. (2012, background): “…concepts, the representation of abstract concepts, including social terms (“justice”, “freedom”), scientific expressions (“gravitation”, “quantum ergodicity”) but also inner state terms (“desire”, “pity”), is poorly understood and represents a crucial issue in the research on the nature of…”
Motor movement matters: The flexible abstractness of inner speech (2010, neutral): “Embodiment, in the domain of language processing, is usually taken to be about whether meaning is sensory–motor in nature—specifically, in terms of engaging sensory or motor simulations of the events signified by linguistic referents (e.g., Barsalou, 1999; Lakoff, 1987; Pulvermüller, 2005).”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “…but increasing activity that was temporally synchronized between the auditory and motor brain regions in 6- and 12-month-old infants (from Imada et al., 2006). tradition (Kuhl and Meltzoff, 1996; Meltzoff and Decety, 2003; Pulvermuller, 2005; Rizzolatti, 2005; Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004).”
Grounded Cognition: Past, Present, and Future (2010, background): “One of the most significant areas has been cognitive neuroscience , where researchers such as Martin (2001) (2007), Pulvermüller (1999, 2005), and Thompson-Schill (2003) performed neuroimaging on tasks that engage memory, knowledge , language, and thought.”
Cross-talk between Language Processes and Overt Motor Behavior in the First 200 msec of Processing (2006, background): “Together with evidences from TMS and brain imaging studies (Buccino et al., 2005; Pulvermüller, 2005; Pulvermüller, Hauk, et al., 2005; Tettamanti et al., 2005; Hauk et al., 2004), our finding is thus suggestive of the assumption that language-related activity in cortical motor regions is part of…”
A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content. (2008, neutral): “The activation of the motor system is fast It has been demonstrated (for review, see Pulvermüller, 2005; see also Boulenger et al., 2006 ) that the motor system is activated within about 200 ms of the presentation of an action word referring to a bodily action.”
Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action (2012, neutral): “[3,14,25,26,31,40,52].”