Visual recognition of words learned with gestures induces motor resonance in the forearm muscles

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 17278 - 16
• Main Authors: Repetto, Claudia, Mathias, Brian, Weichselbaum, Otto, Macedonia, Manuela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 26.08.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/2629; 631/378/2649; 631/477/2811; Adult; Arm; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Electromyography; Electromyography - methods; Feedback, Sensory - physiology; Female; Forearm; Forearm - physiology; Gestures; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Language; Learning; Learning - physiology; Listening; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; multidisciplinary; Muscle, Skeletal - physiology; Muscles; Pattern recognition; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Recognition, Psychology - physiology; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Semantics; Sensorimotor system; Vocabulary; Young Adult
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96792-9

According to theories of Embodied Cognition, memory for words is related to sensorimotor experiences collected during learning. At a neural level, words encoded with self-performed gestures are represented in distributed sensorimotor networks that resonate during word recognition. Here, we ask wheth...