Brain Activation During Conceptual Processing of Action and Sound Verbs

• Published in: Advances in cognitive psychology Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 236 - 255
• Main Authors: Popp, Margot, Trumpp, Natalie M, Sim, Eun-Jin, Kiefer, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Poland University of Finance and Management in Warsaw 01.12.2019; Vizja Press & IT; University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw
• Subjects: Brain; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Knowledge; Germany; sound-related concepts; grounded cognition theory; action-related concepts; embodied cognition; resonance imaging; language; functional magnetic

Grounded cognition approaches to conceptual representations postulate a close link between conceptual knowledge and the sensorimotor brain systems. The present fMRI study tested, whether a feature-specific representation of concepts, as previously demonstrated for nouns, can also be found for action...